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Persian Lessons (2020) [N/A]

Release Date:
April 17, 2020

Original Title:
Persian Lessons

Alternate Titles:
El profesor de persa
Leksjoner i løgn
Lektioner i løgn
Persian Lessons
Persian oppitunnit
Persischstunden
Selviytymisen oppitunnit
Uma Lição de Esperança
Uroki farsi
Uroki persidskogo
Уроки персидского
波斯密語

Genres:
Drama | War

Production Companies:
Belarusfilm
Hype Film
LM Media
One Two Films

Production Countries:
Belarus | Germany | Russia

Ratings / Certifications:
AU: M  BR: 14  CH: 12  DE: 12  ES: 16  FI: K-16  FR: TP|10  GB: 15  GR: Κ-12  HK: IIB  HU: 12  IL: All  IT: 14+  NL: 16  NO: 15  PL: 16  SE: 15  SK: 15 

Runtime: 127

Overview from TheMovieDB

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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Co-Producer:
Sol Bondy
Jamila Wenske
Elizaveta Chalenko
Ilya Dzhincharadze
Leonid Shpolsky

Director:
Vadim Perelman

Director of Photography:
Vladislav Opelyants

Editor:
Vessela Martschewski

Original Music Composer:
Evgueni Galperine
Sacha Galperine

Producer:
Pavel Burya
Murad Osmann
Ilya Stewart
Vadim Perelman
Rauf Atamalibekov
Ilya Zofin
Timur Bekmambetov

Production Design:
Dmitry Tatarnikov

Screenplay:
Ilya Zofin

Visual Effects Producer:
Nadezhda Zezyukova

Visual Effects Supervisor:
Sergey Toktarov

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