Cast and Crew of Persian Lessons

Cast of
Persian Lessons

About 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.

Full Cast of Persian Lessons

Nahuel Pérez Biscayart
plays Gilles

Lars Eidinger
plays Klaus Koch

Jonas Nay
plays Max

Leonie Benesch
plays Elsa

Leonie Benesch as Elsa

Leonie Benesch was born on April 22, 1991 and is currently 33 years old.

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Alexander Beyer
plays Camp Commander

David Schütter
plays Paul

Luisa-Céline Gaffron
plays Yana

Andreas Hofer
plays Adjutant von Dewitz

Giuseppe Schillaci
plays Marco Rossi

Antonin Chalon
plays Jacob Rossi

Lola Bessis
plays Melanie

Mehdi Rahim-Silvioli
plays Nathan

Sofya Gershevich
plays Melanie

Nico Ehrenteit
plays Obersturmführer Krupp

Gareth McGregor
plays US Army Officer

Marcus Calvin
plays American Investigator

Peter Beck
plays Nazi Doctor

Felix von Bredow
plays SS-Untersturmführer Siemens

Oleg Veber
plays German soldier

Svetlana Anikey
plays SS German Girl 1

Anastasia Gudei
plays SS German Girl 2

Veronika Buslaeva
plays SS German Girl 3

Elena Girenok
plays SS German Girl 4

Serge Barbagallo
plays France KAPO

Pascal Elso
plays French Policeman

Ingo Hülsmann
plays SS-Sturmbannführer Farber

Elena Stetsenko
plays Stenographer

Gennadiy Fomin
plays Farmer

Anton Zhukov
plays German Soldier Innsbruck

Maximilian Anthony Hirschle
plays American Soldier


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