Persian Lessons
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Production
Budget
$0
Box office
$3 825 668
Director
Actors
Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Lars Eidinger, Jonas Nay, Leonie Benesch, Alexander Beyer, David Schütter, Luisa-Céline Gaffron, Andreas Hofer, Giuseppe Schillaci, Antonin Chalon
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Timur Bekmambetov, Vadim Perelman, Ilya Zofin, Murad Osmann, Ilya Stewart, Pavel Burya, Rauf Atamalibekov
Camera operator
Vladislav Opelyants
Composer
Artist
Dmitry Tatarnikov
Audition
Editing
Vessela Martschewski
Whole Team (19)
Whole Team (19)
Short description
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.
What's left behind the scenes
- The film's script was originally written in Russian, then translated into English, and only after that – into German.
- The so-called Farsi (the language heard in the film) was invented by director Vadim Perelman and a philologist who developed the grammar rules and compiled a dictionary of 600 words.
- When Gilles is running through the forest at the 117th minute of the film, a microphone enters the frame.
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