Persian Lessons
2020 · directed by Vadim Perelman
- Rating
- 72/100
- Hit
- no
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.
Persian Lessons (2020), directed by Vadim Perelman, rates 72/100. See how its director, cast and crew rate across their careers.
Cast
- Nahuel Pérez Biscayart
- Lars Eidinger
- Jonas Nay
- Leonie Benesch
- Alexander Beyer
- David Schütter
- Luisa-Céline Gaffron
- Andreas Hofer
- Giuseppe Schillaci
- Antonin Chalon
Crew
- Vladislav Opelyants — Director of Photography
- Vessela Martschewski — Editor
- Evgueni Galperine — Original Music Composer
- Sacha Galperine — Original Music Composer
- Ilya Zofin — Screenplay
More from Vadim Perelman
- House of Sand and Fog (2003) — 73/100
- The Passenger (2026) — 52/100
- The Life Before Her Eyes (2008) — 49/100
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