Persian Lessons
| Score: | 10 / 10 |
| Released: | June 16, 2023 |
| Director: | Vadim Perelman |
| Producer: | Ilya Stewart, Ilya Zofin, Murad Osmann, Pavel Burya, Rauf Atamalibekov, Timur Bekmambetov, Vadim Perelman |
| Studio: | Mongrel Media |
| Cast: | Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Lars Eidinger, Jonas Nay, David Schütter, Alexander Beyer, Andreas Hofer, Leonie Benesch, Luisa-Céline Gaffron |
| Genre: | Drama |
| Length: | 127 minutes |
Persian Lessons Synopsis
Occupied France, 1942. Gilles (Nahuel Pérez Biscayart) is arrested by SS soldiers along with other Jews and sent to a concentration 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 the Head of Camp, Klaus Koch (Lars Eidinger), who dreams of opening a restaurant in Iran once the war is over.
Based on the novel by Wolfgang Kohlhaase.