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.

Released

2020-04-17

Genres

War, Drama

Runtime

127 min

Status

Released

Directed / written by

Ilya Zofin, Vadim Perelman

TMDB rating

7.6/10 from 528 votes