Persian Lessons vs Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War

Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War has the higher audience score (8/10 against 7.6/10 for Persian Lessons). Persian Lessons is the shorter watch at 2h 7m compared with 2h 28m. Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War is the older of the two (2004 against 2020). Both are drama, war movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Persian Lessons posterPersian Lessons2020 VS Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War posterTae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War2004
Persian LessonsTae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War
Audience score★ 7.6/10★ 8.0/10
Year20202004
Length2h 7m2h 28m
GenresDrama, WarAction, Adventure, Drama, History, War
CountryRussiaSouth Korea
DirectorVadim PerelmanKang Je-kyu
Main castAlexander Beyer, Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Lars Eidinger, Antonin Chalon, Lola BessisJang Dong-gun, An Kil-kang, Lee Eun-ju, Cho Won-hee, Jo Yoon-hee

Synopsis

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…

Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War

When two brothers are forced to fight in the Korean War, the elder decides to take the riskiest missions if it will help shield the younger from battle.

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