Persian Lessons (2020)
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.
Director:
Vadim Perelman
Writer:
Ilya Zofin
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Nahuel Pérez Biscayart as Gilles |
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Lars Eidinger as Klaus Koch |
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Jonas Nay as Max |
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Leonie Benesch as Elsa |
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Alexander Beyer as Camp Commander |
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David Schütter as Paul |
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Luisa-Céline Gaffron as Yana |
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Andreas Hofer as Adjutant von Dewitz |
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Giuseppe Schillaci as Marco Rossi |
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Antonin Chalon as Jacob Rossi |
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Lola Bessis as Melanie |
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Mehdi Rahim-Silvioli as Nathan |
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Sofya Gershevich as Melanie |
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Nico Ehrenteit as Obersturmführer Krupp |
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Gareth McGregor as US Army Officer |
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Marcus Calvin as American Investigator |
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Peter Beck as Nazi Doctor |
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Felix von Bredow as SS-Untersturmführer Siemens |
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Oleg Veber as German soldier |
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Svetlana Anikey as SS German Girl 1 |
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Anastasia Gudei as SS German Girl 2 |
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Veronika Buslaeva as SS German Girl 3 |
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Elena Girenok as SS German Girl 4 |
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Serge Barbagallo as France KAPO |
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Pascal Elso as French Policeman |
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Ingo Hülsmann as SS-Sturmbannführer Farber |
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Elena Stetsenko as Stenographer |
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Gennadiy Fomin as Farmer |
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Anton Zhukov as German Soldier Innsbruck |
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Maximilian Anthony Hirschle as American Soldier |
| Visual Effects | Sergey Toktarov | Visual Effects Supervisor |
| Visual Effects | Nadezhda Zezyukova | Visual Effects Producer |
| Production | Murad Osmann | Producer |
| Writing | Ilya Zofin | Screenplay |
| Editing | Vessela Martschewski | Editor |
| Directing | Vadim Perelman | Director |
| Production | Pavel Burya | Producer |
| Camera | Vladislav Opelyants | Director of Photography |
| Production | Ilya Stewart | Producer |
| Production | Ilya Dzhincharadze | Co-Producer |
| Sound | Sacha Galperine | Original Music Composer |
| Production | Jamila Wenske | Co-Producer |
| Production | Sol Bondy | Co-Producer |
| Sound | Evgueni Galperine | Original Music Composer |
| Production | Elizaveta Chalenko | Co-Producer |
| Production | Leonid Shpolsky | Co-Producer |
| Production | Timur Bekmambetov | Producer |
| Production | Rauf Atamalibekov | Producer |
| Production | Ilya Zofin | Producer |
| Production | Vadim Perelman | Producer |
| Art | Dmitry Tatarnikov | Production Design |
