Synopsis
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.
Cast
Nahuel Pérez Biscayart
Gilles
Lars Eidinger
Klaus Koch
Jonas Nay
Max
Leonie Benesch
Elsa
Alexander Beyer
Camp Commander
David Schütter
Paul
Luisa-Céline Gaffron
Yana
Andreas Hofer
Adjutant von Dewitz
Giuseppe Schillaci
Marco Rossi
Antonin Chalon
Jacob Rossi
Lola Bessis
Melanie
Mehdi Rahim-Silvioli
Nathan
Sofya Gershevich
Melanie
Nico Ehrenteit
Obersturmführer Krupp
Gareth McGregor
US Army Officer
Marcus Calvin
American Investigator
Peter Beck
Nazi Doctor
Felix von Bredow
SS-Untersturmführer Siemens
Oleg Veber
German soldier
Svetlana Anikey
SS German Girl 1
Anastasia Gudei
SS German Girl 2
Veronika Buslaeva
SS German Girl 3
Elena Girenok
SS German Girl 4
Serge Barbagallo
France KAPO
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