Persian Lessons

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.

• Ilya ZofinScreenplay
• Vadim PerelmanDirector
• Sacha GalperineOriginal Music Composer
• Evgueni GalperineOriginal Music Composer

• Nahuel Pérez BiscayartGilles
• Lars EidingerKlaus Koch
• Jonas NayMax
• Leonie BeneschElsa
• Alexander BeyerCamp Commander
• David SchütterPaul
• Luisa-Céline GaffronYana
• Andreas HoferAdjutant von Dewitz
• Giuseppe SchillaciMarco Rossi
• Antonin ChalonJacob Rossi
• Lola BessisMelanie
• Mehdi Rahim-SilvioliNathan