Persian Lessons

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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.

  • Genre: War, Drama
  • Release Date: 2020-04-17
  • Runtime: 127 min
  • Country: Russia, Germany, Belarus
  • Language: German, English, French, Italian, Persian
  • Status: Released
  • IMDb Rating: 7.6
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