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A Balasaur Score of 71 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 7.4/10, Rotten Tomatoes 80%, Metacritic 53/100. Audiences rate it 21 points higher than critics do. Streaming on Tubi.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb7.4/10
Rotten Tomatoes80%
Metacritic53/100
Audiences rate it 21 points higher than critics do.
513 audience votes
Key crew
- Ilya ZofinScreenplay
- Vadim PerelmanDirector
- Sacha GalperineOriginal Music Composer
- Evgueni GalperineOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- 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
Stills
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Themes
naziconcentration campworld war iiconcentration camp prisonergerman officerbased on short storyexhaustionfictional languagejewish