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Persian Lessons

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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.

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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.

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Nahuel Pérez Biscayart
Nahuel Pérez BiscayartGilles
Lars Eidinger
Lars EidingerKlaus Koch
Jonas Nay
Jonas NayMax
Leonie Benesch
Leonie BeneschElsa
Alexander Beyer
Alexander BeyerCamp Commander
David Schütter
David SchütterPaul
Luisa-Céline Gaffron
Luisa-Céline GaffronYana
Andreas Hofer
Andreas HoferAdjutant von Dewitz

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