Russia / Germany / Belarus,
2020, 127 min
Directed by:
Вадим ПерельманScreenplay:
Ilya TsofinCinematography:
Vladislav OpelyantsCast:
Leonie Benesch, David Schütter, Lars Eidinger, Jonas Nay, Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Alexander Beyer, Luisa-Céline Gaffron, Giuseppe Schillaci, Nico Ehrenteit (more)VOD (1)
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Occupied France, 1942. Gilles (Nahuel Pérez Biscayart) 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 (Lars Eidinger), who dreams of opening a restaurant in Iran once the war is over. (Mongrel Media)
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