Innocent Voices vs Persian Lessons
Innocent Voices has the higher audience score (8.2/10 against 7.6/10 for Persian Lessons). Innocent Voices is the shorter watch at 2h compared with 2h 7m. Innocent Voices is the older of the two (2005 against 2020). Both are drama, war movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Innocent Voices
Persian Lessons| Innocent Voices | Persian Lessons | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 8.2/10 | ★ 7.6/10 |
| Year | 2005 | 2020 |
| Length | 2h | 2h 7m |
| Genres | Drama, War | Drama, War |
| Country | – | Russia |
| Director | Luis Mandoki | Vadim Perelman |
| Main cast | Daniel Giménez Cacho, Ofelia Medina, José María Yázpik, Paulina Gaitán, Jesús Ochoa | Alexander Beyer, Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Lars Eidinger, Antonin Chalon, Lola Bessis |
Synopsis
Innocent Voices
A young boy, attempting to have a normal childhood in 1980s El Salvador, is caught up in a dramatic fight for his life when he desperately tries to avoid the war that is raging all around him.
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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