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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.Read moreLess
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 BiscayartGilles
Lars EidingerKlaus Koch
Jonas NayMax
Leonie BeneschElsa
Alexander BeyerCamp Commander
David SchütterPaul
Luisa-Céline Gaffron
Andreas HoferAdjutant von Dewitz
Giuseppe SchillaciMarco Rossi
Antonin ChalonJacob Rossi
Lola BessisMelanie
Mehdi Rahim-SilvioliNathanExplore the crew
- Producer
- Murad Osmann
- Screenplay
- Ilya Zofin
- Director of Photography
- Vladislav Opelyants
- Editor
- Vessela Martschewski
- Director
- Vadim Perelman
- Producer
- Pavel Burya
- Producer
- Ilya Stewart
- Original Music Composer
- Sacha Galperine
- Original Music Composer
- Evgueni Galperine
- Producer
- Rauf Atamalibekov
- Producer
- Timur Bekmambetov
- Producer
- Ilya Zofin
- Producer
- Vadim Perelman