Original title
Persian Lessons
Released
4/17/2020
Origin country
BY, DE, RU
Genre
Drama, War
Production companies
One Two Films, Hype Film, LM Media, Belarusfilm
Budget
—
Revenue
$3,825,668.00
Runtime
2hr 7min
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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