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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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
Vadim Perelman
Director
Ilya Zofin
Screenplay
Timur Bekmambetov
Producer
Vadim Perelman
Producer
Pavel Burya
Producer
Ilya Zofin
Producer
Ilya Stewart
Producer
Murad Osmann
Producer
Rauf Atamalibekov
Producer
Vladislav Opelyants
Director of Photography
Sacha Galperine
Original Music Composer
Evgueni Galperine
Original Music Composer
Vessela Martschewski
Editor
Dmitry Tatarnikov
Production Design
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