Movie·2020·127 min

Persian Lessons

Name: Persian Lessons
Genre: War, Drama
Released: 2020-04-17
Duration: 127 min
Rating: 7.6
Cast: Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Lars Eidinger, Jonas Nay, Leonie Benesch, Alexander Beyer

Persian Lessons streams in the US on Cohen Media Amazon Channel and Kanopy, and free with ads on Tubi TV, as of October 5, 2026.

7.6 / 10 · TMDB

War Drama

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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