PERSIAN LESSONS

By Vadim PERELMAN

COHEN MEDIA GROUP - as DISTR

Drama - Completed 2019


Festivals
& Awards

Berlinale - Berlin IFF 2020
Special Gala
    • Year of production
    • 2019
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • RUSSIA, GERMANY
    • Languages
    • FRENCH, GERMAN, ENGLISH
    • Duration
    • 127 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Vadim PERELMAN
    • Writer(s)
    • Ilja ZOLFIN
    • Producer(s)
    • Ilya STEWART (Hype Films)
    • Synopsis
    • Occupied France, 1942. Gilles (Nahuel Perez Biscayart) 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.