Persian Lessons
20202h 7mNo ratings yet
- Drama
- War
Overview
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.
Keywords
- nazi
- world war ii
- based on short story
- concentration camp
- concentration camp prisoner
- fictional language
- german officer
- jewish
- exhaustion
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- April 17, 2020
- Original language
- German
- Spoken languages
- english, french, italian, persian, german
- Countries
- Belarus, Germany, Russia
- Production
- Belarusfilm,Hype Film,One Two Films,LM Media,Hype Studios,LM Media, One Two Films, Belarusfilm, Hype Studios
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- $3,825,668
- Homepage
- Official site
- IMDb
- tt9738784