- Country: Belarus, Germany, Russia
- Genres: Drama, War
- Release: 2020-09-24
- Director: Vadim Perelman
- Writers: Ilja Zofin , Wolfgang Kohlhaase
- Language: German | French | Italian | English | Persian
- Stars: Nahuel Pérez Biscayart , Lars Eidinger , Jonas Nay , David Schütter
- Runtime: 127 min
- Awards: 9 wins & 15 nominations
- AKA: Persischstunden (Germany) , Persian Lessons (New Zealand) , Урокі фарсі (Belarus) , Les leçons persanes (France, French Republic) , 波斯语课 (China) , ペルシャン・レッスン 戦場の教室 (Japan) , Časovi persijskog (Serbia) , Uma Lição de Esperança (Brazil) , As Lições de Persa (Portugal, Portuguese Republic) , Lecții de persană (Romania) , Persian Lessons (United States of America) , Lektioner i överlevnad (Sweden) , Persischstunden , Les leçons persanes (Canada) , Persian Lessons (India) , Shi'ourim Be'Parsit (Israel) , Persian Lessons (Switzerland, Swiss Confederation) , 波斯密語 (Hong Kong) , Уроки фарси (Russian Federation) , 페르시안 레슨스 (Korea) , Persian Lessons (Netherlands the) , Persian Lessons (Ecuador) , Lektioner i persiska (Sweden) , El profesor de persa (Spain) , Persian Lessons (Singapore) , Perzsa nyelvleckék (Hungary) , Persian Lessons (United Kingdom) , Umudun Dili (Turkey) , Persian oppitunnit (Finland) , Μαθήματα Περσικών (Greece) , Lezioni di persiano (Italy) , Persian Lessons (Australia) , Lektioner i løgn (Denmark) , Leksjoner i løgn (Norway) , Уроки фарсі (Ukraine) , Persian Lessons (Canada) , Persų kalbos pamokos (Lithuania) , Persischstunden (Austria) , Poufne lekcje perskiego (Poland) , Persian Lessons , Persian Lessons (United Arab Emirates) , Lekcije iz perzijskog (Croatia) , Persian Lessons (Indonesia) , 波斯語課 (Taiwan) , Selviytymisen oppitunnit (Finland) , Persiske lektioner (Denmark)波斯密語
- Plot:
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.
- IMDB:tt9738784
Persian Lessons Cast · · · ALL
Vadim Perelman
Director
Nahuel Pérez Biscayart
Gilles
Lars Eidinger
Klaus Koch
Jonas Nay
Max
Leonie Benesch
Elsa
Alexander Beyer
Camp Commander
David Schütter
Paul
Andreas Hofer
Adjutant von Dewitz
Giuseppe Schillaci
Marco Rossi
Antonin Chalon
Jacob Rossi
Lola Bessis
Melanie
Marcus Calvin
American Investigator
Peter Beck
Nazi Doctor
Felix von Bredow
SS-Untersturmführer Siemens
Oleg Veber
German soldier
Svetlana Anikey
SS German Girl 1
Anastasia Gudei
SS German Girl 2
Veronika Buslaeva
SS German Girl 3
Elena Girenok
SS German Girl 4
Pascal Elso
French Policeman
Ingo Hülsmann
SS-Sturmbannführer Farber
Elena Stetsenko
Stenographer
Anton Zhukov
German Soldier Innsbruck