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.
Directed by Vadim Perelman
nazi
concentration camp
world war ii
concentration camp prisoner
german officer
based on short story
exhaustion
fictional language
jewish
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Letterboxd
3.6 / 5
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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
Crew
Vadim Perelman
Director
Ilya Zofin
Screenplay
Evgueni Galperine
Original Music Composer
Sacha Galperine
Original Music Composer
Murad Osmann
Producer
Pavel Burya
Producer
Ilya Dzhincharadze
Co-Producer
Jamila Wenske
Co-Producer
Sol Bondy
Co-Producer
Ilya Zofin
Producer
Vadim Perelman
Producer
Timur Bekmambetov
Producer
Popular Reviews
62 reviews
Hosha
5.0★ · 07/27/25
Inventing a whole language just to convince them you are persian lol.. gaslighting final boss 💀
Inventing a whole language just to convince them you are persian lol.. gaslighting final boss 💀
Alex Luxe
6.0★ · 03/18/24
мммм радж
мммм радж
Kapihana Pai
5.0★ · 10/24/21
This was so very well produced and made but sometimes the tone gets a little too light or jokey for the subject of the film at times. I don’t think we need comedic relief in the form of nazis making small penis jokes
This was so very well produced and made but sometimes the tone gets a little too light or jokey for the subject of the film at times. I don’t think we need comedic relief in the form of nazis making small penis jokes
