Ayla: The Daughter of War vs Persian Lessons

Ayla: The Daughter of War has the higher audience score (8/10 against 7.6/10 for Persian Lessons). Ayla: The Daughter of War is the shorter watch at 2h 4m compared with 2h 7m. Ayla: The Daughter of War is the older of the two (2017 against 2020). Both are drama, war movies, so they suit a similar mood.

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Audience score★ 8.0/10★ 7.6/10
Year20172020
Length2h 4m2h 7m
GenresDrama, History, WarDrama, War
Country–Russia
DirectorCan UlkayVadim Perelman
Main castEric Roberts, Çetin Tekindor, Altan Erkekli, Taner Birsel, İsmail HacıoğluAlexander Beyer, Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Lars Eidinger, Antonin Chalon, Lola Bessis

Synopsis

Ayla: The Daughter of War

In 1950, amidst the ravages of the Korean War, Sergeant Süleyman stumbles upon a a half-frozen little girl, with no parents and no help in sight and he risks his own life to save her, smuggling her into his army base and out of harm’s way.

Persian Lessons

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…

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