PERSIAN LESSONS
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.
| international title: | Persian Lessons |
| original title: | Persischstunden |
| country: | Russia, Germany, Belarus |
| sales agent: | Memento International |
| year: | 2020 |
| genre: | fiction |
| directed by: | Vadim Perelman |
| film run: | 127' |
| screenplay: | Ilya Zofin |
| cast: | Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Lars Eidinger, Jonas Nay, Leonie Benesch, Alexander Beyer, David Schütter, Luisa-Céline Gaffron, Guiseppe Schillaci, Antonin Chalon, Mehdi Rahim-Silvioli |
| cinematography by: | Vladislav Opelyants |
| film editing: | Vessela Martschewski |
| art director: | Dmitry Tatarnikov |
| costumes designer: | Alexey Kamyshov |
| music: | Evgueni Galperine |
| producer: | Ilya Stewart, Murad Osmann, Pavel Burya, Ilya Zofin, Rauf Atamalibekov, Timur Bekmambetov, Vadim Perelman |
| co-producer: | Sol Bondy |
| production: | LM Media, ONE TWO Films, Hype Film (RU), Belarusfilm (BY) |
| distributor: | Academy Two |
