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Rotten Tomatoes® Score 79%

88%

2h 7m | Drama, War

Occupied France, 1942. Gilles (Nahuel Pérez Biscayart) is arrested by SS soldiers along with other Jews and sent to a concentration 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 the Head of Camp, Klaus Koch (Lars Eidinger), who dreams of opening a restaurant in Iran once the war is over. Based on the novel by Wolfgang Kohlhaase.

Director: Vadim Perelman

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Producer(s): Ilya Stewart, Murad Osmann, Pavel Burya, Timur Bekmambetov, Vadim Perelman

Cast: Lars Eidinger, Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Alexander Beyer

Writer(s): Ilja Zofin

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Rotten Tomatoes® Score 79%

88%

2h 7m | Drama, War

Occupied France, 1942. Gilles (Nahuel Pérez Biscayart) is arrested by SS soldiers along with other Jews and sent to a concentration 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 the Head of Camp, Klaus Koch (Lars Eidinger), who dreams of opening a restaurant in Iran once the war is over. Based on the novel by Wolfgang Kohlhaase.

Rotten Tomatoes® Score 79%

88%

2h 7m | Drama, War

Occupied France, 1942. Gilles (Nahuel Pérez Biscayart) is arrested by SS soldiers along with other Jews and sent to a concentration 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 the Head of Camp, Klaus Koch (Lars Eidinger), who dreams of opening a restaurant in Iran once the war is over.

Based on the novel by Wolfgang Kohlhaase.