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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.
- Year2020
- Runtime127 minutes
- LanguageGerman, French, English, Italian, Persian
- CountryBelarus, Germany, Russian Federation
- DirectorVadim Perelman
- ScreenwriterIlya Zofin
- ProducerTimur Bekmambetov, Vadim Perelman, Ilya Zofin, Murad Osmann, Ilya Stewart, Pavel Burya, Rauf Atamalibekov
- Co-ProducerSol Bondy, Ilya Dzhincharadze, Jamila Wenske, Elizaveta Chalenko, Leonid Shpolsky
- CastNahuel Pérez Biscayart, Lars Eidinger, Jonas Nay
- CinematographerVladislav Opelyants
- EditorVessela Martschewski
- Production DesignDmitry Tatarnikov
- ComposerEvgueni Galperine, Sacha Galperine
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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.
- Year2020
- Runtime127 minutes
- LanguageGerman, French, English, Italian, Persian
- CountryBelarus, Germany, Russian Federation
- DirectorVadim Perelman
- ScreenwriterIlya Zofin
- ProducerTimur Bekmambetov, Vadim Perelman, Ilya Zofin, Murad Osmann, Ilya Stewart, Pavel Burya, Rauf Atamalibekov
- Co-ProducerSol Bondy, Ilya Dzhincharadze, Jamila Wenske, Elizaveta Chalenko, Leonid Shpolsky
- CastNahuel Pérez Biscayart, Lars Eidinger, Jonas Nay
- CinematographerVladislav Opelyants
- EditorVessela Martschewski
- Production DesignDmitry Tatarnikov
- ComposerEvgueni Galperine, Sacha Galperine