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Persian Lessons (2020) is available on Kanopy with a participating library card. Also available to stream on Cohen Media Amazon Channel.
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You can watch Persian Lessons (2020) on Kanopy with a participating library card.
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.
Inside the suffocating confines of a Nazi concentration camp, a desperate lie becomes a fragile shield for survival. A young man must teach Farsi to a sadistic officer to keep his fabricated identity from collapsing under scrutiny.
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Vadim Perelman
Cast
Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Lars Eidinger, Jonas Nay, Leonie Benesch, Alexander Beyer, David Schütter, Luisa-Céline Gaffron, Andreas Hofer, Giuseppe Schillaci, Antonin Chalon
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Persian Lessons
You can watch Persian Lessons (2020) on Kanopy with a participating library card.
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Director
Vadim Perelman
Cast
Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Lars Eidinger, Jonas Nay, Leonie Benesch, Alexander Beyer, David Schütter, Luisa-Céline Gaffron, Andreas Hofer, Giuseppe Schillaci, Antonin Chalon
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Watch Persian Lessons on Kanopy with a participating library card. Persian Lessons is streaming on Cohen Media Amazon Channel. Availability last verified September 21, 2026.