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Persian Lessons

2020·2h 7m
DramaWar
IMDb Rating
★ 7.4/10
15,554 votes
Metascore
53
Metacritic

A young Jewish man in a concentration camp has his life saved when executioners realize he owns a Persian book. Brought before a camp officer who wants to learn Farsi, Gilles agrees to teach him despite not knowing a word of the language.

Persian Lessons is a 2020 drama war movie directed by Vadim Perelman, starring Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Jonas Nay, Lars Eidinger. It holds an IMDb rating of 7.4/10 from 15,554 votes and runs 2h 7m.

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Director
Vadim Perelman
Stars
Nahuel Pérez Biscayart
Jonas Nay
Lars Eidinger
David Schütter
Details
2020-09-24
127 min
Movie
★ Russia, Belarus, Germany
★ German, English, French, Italian, Persian
Keywords
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