Released:
2020-04-17

Overview:
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.

Director:
Vadim Perelman

Runtime:
2h 7min

Genre:
War, Drama

• Cast:
• 
  Nahuel Pérez Biscayart
  as
  Gilles
• 
  Lars Eidinger
  as
  Klaus Koch
• 
  Jonas Nay
  as
  Max
• 
  Leonie Benesch
  as
  Elsa
• 
  Alexander Beyer
  as
  Camp Commander