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.
Top Cast
Nahuel PĂ©rez Biscayart as Gilles
Lars Eidinger as Klaus Koch
Jonas Nay as Max
Leonie Benesch as Elsa
Alexander Beyer as Camp Commander
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