
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.
Director:

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

Marcus Calvin
American Investigator

Peter Beck
Nazi Doctor

Felix von Bredow
SS-Untersturmführer Siemens

Oleg Veber
German soldier

Svetlana Anikey
SS German Girl 1

Anastasia Gudei
SS German Girl 2

Veronika Buslaeva
SS German Girl 3

Elena Girenok
SS German Girl 4

Serge Barbagallo
France KAPO

Pascal Elso
French Policeman

Ingo Hülsmann
SS-Sturmbannführer Farber

Elena Stetsenko
Stenographer

Gennadiy Fomin
Farmer

Anton Zhukov
German Soldier Innsbruck

Maximilian Anthony Hirschle
American Soldier
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