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Nahuel Pérez Biscayart is known for:

  • 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 inventing words of "Farsi" every day and teaching them to Koch.
  • BPM (Beats per Minute)
    Paris, in the early 1990s: a group of young activists is desperately tied to finding the cure against an unknown lethal disease. They target the pharmaceutical labs that are retaining potential cures, and multiply direct actions, with the hope of saving their lives as well as the ones of future generations.
  • The Aura
    In neo-noir fashion El Aura narrates in the first person the hallucinating voyage of Espinoza, a quiet, cynical taxidermist, who suffers epilepsy attacks, and is obsessed with committing the perfect crime.

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Biography

Nahuel Pérez Biscayart (born 6 March 1986) is an Argentine actor. A polyglot, he is best known for his role in the French film BPM (Beats per Minute) (2017), which earned him a César and a Lumières Award. Biscayart was born in Buenos Aires to a mother of Basque and Italian descent and a father of Spanish-Andalusian descent. His grandmother is from Biarritz. He trained at the Buenos Aires School of Fine Arts. Source: Article "Nahuel Pérez Biscayart" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.