Persian Lessons

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.