Persian Lessons (2020)

Name: Persian Lessons
Director: Vadim Perelman
Genre: War, Drama
Released: 2020-04-17
Duration: 2 h 7 min
Cast: Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Lars Eidinger, Jonas Nay, Leonie Benesch

War Drama

Director: Vadim Perelman

Cast: Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Lars Eidinger, Jonas Nay, Leonie Benesch

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Runtime127 min

Rating15

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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.

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Directed by Vadim Perelman, 'Persian Lessons' is a gripping WWII drama that blends elements of survival, deception, and the power of language. Nahuel Pérez Biscayart's captivating performance anchors this uniquely suspenseful tale of a man who must invent an entire Persian language to avoid execution in a German concentration camp.

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Persian Lessons is a 2020 historical drama film directed by Vadim Perelman. The film was partially inspired by the short story Erfindung einer Sprache by German writer Wolfgang Kohlhaase.