Persian Lessons (2020)
Critics Score
🎬 66%
(RT: 80%, MC: 53) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Jonas Nay as Max
David Schütter as Paul
Luisa-Céline Gaffron as Yana
Andreas Hofer as Adjutant von Dewitz
Is Persian Lessons good?
Most people think so. 84% of audiences gave it a thumbs up, by Google's archived audience score. Critics gave it 66%.
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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. Wikipedia ↗
