Film · 2020 · War
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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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.
8 principal cast
Persian Lessons (2020) is available to stream on Flicksy via 6 verified sources, aggregated from publicly available embed providers. The 2h 7m war directed by Vadim Perelman is rated 7.6/10 by 532 viewers.
Persian Lessons was released on April 17, 2020.
Persian Lessons was directed by Vadim Perelman.
Persian Lessons has a runtime of 127 minutes (2h 7m).
Persian Lessons is categorized as War, Drama.
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