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Overview

User Rating:
7.8/10   66,678 votes
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Director:
Writer:
Steven Knight (screenplay)
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Release Date:
21 September 2007 (USA) more
Tagline:
Every sin leaves a mark.
Plot:
A Russian teenager living in London who dies during childbirth leaves clues to a midwife in her journal that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent Russian mob family. full summary | full synopsis
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Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. Another 24 wins & 35 nominations more
NewsDesk:
(19 articles)
Del Toro Was Autograph Hunters' Favourite At Toronto Film Festival
 (From WENN. 17 September 2008, 9:04 AM, PDT)

Boyle Leads Toronto Film Festival Prizes
 (From WENN. 14 September 2008, 7:07 AM, PDT)

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Another masterpiece more (341 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Josef Altin ... Ekrem
Mina E. Mina ... Azim
Aleksander Mikic ... Soyka

Sarah-Jeanne Labrosse ... Tatiana (as Sarah Jeanne Labrosse)
Lalita Ahmed ... Customer
Badi Uzzaman ... Chemist

Naomi Watts ... Anna
Doña Croll ... Nurse (as Dona Croll)

Raza Jaffrey ... Doctor Aziz
Sinéad Cusack ... Helen (as Sinead Cusack)
Jerzy Skolimowski ... Stepan
Tatiana Maslany ... Tatiana (voice)

Viggo Mortensen ... Nikolai

Vincent Cassel ... Kirill

Armin Mueller-Stahl ... Semyon
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Promesses de l'ombre (Canada: French title)
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MPAA:
Rated R for strong brutal and bloody violence, some graphic sexuality, language and nudity.
Runtime:
100 min | Canada:96 min (Toronto International Film Festival)
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1.85 : 1 more
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Trivia:
The full name of Viggo Mortensen's character is Nikolai Luzhin. This is a reference to Vladimir Nabokov's novel "The Luzhin Defense". more
Goofs:
Errors in geography: The scenes involving the football crowds make no logical sense for a real match at Stamford Bridge. In the first shot, the crowd is exiting the ground via the Britannia Gate on Fulham Road after a game. In the second shot, the crowd is moving from Fulham Broadway along Fulham Road towards the Britannia Gate (as it would before a game); in the third shot, a crowd of people is crossing Lillee Road and entering Brompton Cemetary via the north gate (as it would before a game) but in the next shot (in the cemetery itself), the crowd is moving in the opposite direction, towards the north gate and away from the ground as it would after a game. more
Quotes:
[first lines]
Azim: He says "Christmas." So I say to him,
[in Turkish]
Azim: "Should we go shopping?"
[English]
Azim: The kid's 16. He says, "But uncle, it's Christmas."
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Slavery and Suffering more

FAQ

What is that little thing Nikolai keeps playing with?
What do Nikolai's tattoos mean?
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245 out of 361 people found the following comment useful.
Another masterpiece, 11 September 2007
10/10
Author: vermont23 from Paris, France

Eastern Promises is a further proof David Cronenberg is one of the last classic film-makers left. At the same time, he is a modernist. The combination, in the dark London he created, is a moral tale which makes you think of Dostoievsky. It's a story of crime and redemption with an unusual (hidden) tenderness. At the same time, it is a very serious trip into the rites of a secret society as we can see more and more in our big cities. A criminal secret society.

Cronenberg (and his friend Peter Suschistky) have created another universe that seems another version of ours. As usual it is a mental one, but so close to what we call "reality" that it makes you uncomfortable and eventually horrified. The cast is fantastic and the script is brilliant.

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