

Persian Lessons
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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- Status
- Released
- Budget
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- Box office
- $3.8M
- Language
- English
- nazi
- concentration camp
- world war ii
- concentration camp prisoner
- german officer
- based on short story
- exhaustion
- fictional language
- jewish
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Russia, Germany, Belarus, France
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United StatesUS
- Theatrical (limited)9 Jun 2023
United KingdomGB
- Digital / OTT1522 Jan 2021
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalM14 Oct 2021
BrazilBR
- Digital / OTT14VOD16 Mar 2022
ChinaCN
- Theatrical19 Mar 2021
CzechiaCZ
- Theatrical24 Jun 2021
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical (limited)1517 Apr 2020
EstoniaEE
- Theatrical6 Nov 2020
FinlandFI
- TheatricalK-1617 Sept 2021
FranceFR
- TheatricalTP19 Jan 2022
- Digital / OTTVOD28 Apr 2022
- Physical10DVD3 May 2022
- TVARTE23 Apr 2025
GermanyDE
- PremiereBerlin International Film Festival22 Feb 2020
- Theatrical1224 Sept 2020
- Physical12DVD + Blu-ray29 Jan 2021
GreeceGR
- TheatricalΚ-1216 Sept 2021
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Persian Lessons was released on 17 April 2020.
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