
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.
Details
- Director
- Vadim Perelman
- Writer
- Ilya Zofin
- Original Language
- German
- Budget
- N/A
Cast
Alexander Beyer
Andreas Hofer
Antonin Chalon
David Schütter
Giuseppe Schillaci
Jonas Nay
Lars Eidinger
Leonie Benesch
Luisa-Céline Gaffron
Nahuel Pérez Biscayart
Keywords
concentration camp
concentration camp prisoner
exhaustion
fictional language
german officer
jewish
nazi
world war ii
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