Leonie Benesch
3 titles
Filmography
3 results

The Teachers' Lounge
(2023)When one of her students is suspected of theft, a dedicated teacher decides to investigate, trapping herself between her ideals and the school system.

September 5
(2024)During the 1972 Munich Olympics, a hostage crisis pushes legendary TV executive Roone Arledge (Peter Sarsgaard) to thrust an untested sports producer, Geoff Mason (John Magaro), into the spotlight of breaking news coverage. With lives hanging in the balance and the world watching, this pivotal moment, based on a true story, reshaped journalism forever.

Persian Lessons
(2020)Inspired by true events, this powerful survival story is from director Vadim Perelman (House of Sand and Fog). Nazi-occupied France, 1942. Gilles (Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, The Intruder) is arrested by SS soldiers but narrowly avoids execution by swearing that he is not Jewish, but Persian. Gilles gets assigned a life-or-death mission: to teach Farsi to Head of Camp Koch (Lars Eidinger, High Life).