Persian Lessons

The story

Occupied France, 1942. Gilles is arrested by SS soldiers alongside other Jews and sent to a camp in Germany. He narrowly avoids sudden execution by swearing to the guards that he is not Jewish, but Persian. This lie temporarily saves him, but Gilles gets assigned a life-or-death mission: to teach Farsi to Head of Camp Koch, who dreams of opening a restaurant in Iran once the war is over. Through an ingenious trick, Gilles manages to survive by inventing words of "Farsi" every day and teaching them to Koch.

Cast

N Nahuel Pérez BiscayartGilles L Lars EidingerKlaus Koch J Jonas NayMax L Leonie BeneschElsa A Alexander BeyerCamp Commander D David SchütterPaul L Luisa-Céline GaffronYana A Andreas HoferAdjutant von Dewitz G Giuseppe SchillaciMarco Rossi A Antonin ChalonJacob Rossi L Lola BessisMelanie M Mehdi Rahim-SilvioliNathan

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S Sofya GershevichMelanie N Nico EhrenteitObersturmführer Krupp G Gareth McGregorUS Army Officer M Marcus CalvinAmerican Investigator P Peter BeckNazi Doctor F Felix von BredowSS-Untersturmführer Siemens O Oleg VeberGerman soldier S Svetlana AnikeySS German Girl 1 A Anastasia GudeiSS German Girl 2 V Veronika BuslaevaSS German Girl 3 E Elena GirenokSS German Girl 4 S Serge BarbagalloFrance KAPO P Pascal ElsoFrench Policeman I Ingo HülsmannSS-Sturmbannführer Farber E Elena StetsenkoStenographer G Gennadiy FominFarmer A Anton ZhukovGerman Soldier Innsbruck M Maximilian Anthony HirschleAmerican Soldier