Persian Lessons
127 mins
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.
Anastasia Gudei
SS German Girl 2
Veronika Buslaeva
SS German Girl 3
Maximilian Anthony Hirschle
American Soldier
Sergey Toktarov
Visual Effects Supervisor
Nadezhda Zezyukova
Visual Effects Producer
Vessela Martschewski
Editor
Ilya Stewart
Producer
Sol Bondy
Co-Producer
Elizaveta Chalenko
Co-Producer
Leonid Shpolsky
Co-Producer
Rauf Atamalibekov
Producer
Dmitry Tatarnikov
Production Design