Persian Lessons
MovieTitle | Persian Lessons |
User score | 7.6 |
Release date | Apr 17, 2020 |
Genre | War, Drama |
Director | Vadim Perelman |
Production country | Belarus, Germany, Russia |
Production companies | Hype Film, LM Media, One Two Films, Belarusfilm |
Revenue | $3,825,668 |
Run time | 127 min. |
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.