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
Leonie Benesch
plays Elsa
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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