National Theatre Live: Good vs Persian Lessons
National Theatre Live: Good has the higher audience score (8.5/10 against 7.6/10 for Persian Lessons). National Theatre Live: Good is the shorter watch at 1h 40m compared with 2h 7m. Persian Lessons is the older of the two (2020 against 2023). Both are drama, war movies, so they suit a similar mood.
National Theatre Live: Good
Persian Lessons| National Theatre Live: Good | Persian Lessons | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 8.5/10 | ★ 7.6/10 |
| Year | 2023 | 2020 |
| Length | 1h 40m | 2h 7m |
| Genres | Drama, War | Drama, War |
| Country | – | Russia |
| Director | Dominic Cooke | Vadim Perelman |
| Main cast | David Tennant, Elliot Levey, Sharon Small, Jim Creighton, Rebecca Bainbridge | Alexander Beyer, Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Lars Eidinger, Antonin Chalon, Lola Bessis |
Synopsis
National Theatre Live: Good
As the world faces its Second World War, John Halder, a good, intelligent German professor, finds himself pulled into a movement with unthinkable consequences.
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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