Persian Lessons (movie)
- User score: 7.6
- Production country: Belarus, Germany, Russia
- Producer: Vadim Perelman
- Production companies: Hype Film, LM Media, One Two Films, Belarusfilm
- Genre: War, Drama
- Revenue: $3,825,668
- Release date: 4/17/2020
- Run time: 127 min.
Movie description
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.
