Persian Lessons

The film is set during the Second World War in a German concentration camp. A Jewish man (Gilles) tells the commandant that he had a mother from Belgium and a father from Iran. The deputy commandant is intrigued and asks to be taught Persian, but the man is lying and he cannot speak Persian. However the claim earns him a place in the kitchen performing light duties, an enviable position, where the guards are mainly female, but arguably more cruel than the male guards (the main female character Elsa is modelled on the true-life character Elsa Ehrich)