Persian Lessons vs The Imitation Game
The Imitation Game has the higher audience score (8/10 against 7.6/10 for Persian Lessons). The Imitation Game is the shorter watch at 1h 53m compared with 2h 7m. The Imitation Game is the older of the two (2014 against 2020). Both are drama, war movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Persian Lessons
The Imitation Game| Persian Lessons | The Imitation Game | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.6/10 | ★ 8.0/10 |
| Year | 2020 | 2014 |
| Length | 2h 7m | 1h 53m |
| Genres | Drama, War | Drama, History, Thriller, War |
| Country | Russia | United States of America |
| Director | Vadim Perelman | Morten Tyldum |
| Main cast | Alexander Beyer, Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Lars Eidinger, Antonin Chalon, Lola Bessis | Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Rory Kinnear, Matthew Goode, Matthew Beard |
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…
The Imitation Game
Based on the real life story of legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing, the film portrays the nail-biting race against time by Turing and his brilliant team of code-breakers at Britain's top-secret Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, during the darkest days of World War II.
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