Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 127 min
- Age rating
- 15
- Language
- German
- Country
- Russia, Germany, Belarus, France
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- In German — subtitles on.
The story
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.
- nazi
- concentration camp
- world war ii
- concentration camp prisoner
- german officer
- based on short story
- exhaustion
- fictional language
- jewish
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- 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
- Directed
- Vadim Perelman
- Written
- Ilya Zofin
Production
- Rating
- 7.6 / 10 · 505 ratings
- Studio
- LM Media, One Two Films, Belarusfilm, Hype Studios
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