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Eastern Promises
- Director: David Cronenberg
- Writer: Steven Knight
- Producer: Jeff Abberley; Julia Blackman
CGiii Comment
Russians will be in desperate need of some extra PR after this...
Rape, murder, prostitution and, gay testing...yes, there is a scene when Viggo has to prove that he's a breeder...
The violence and lack of morals certainly promote the charm of these chaps.
Cronenberg does an excellent job...but will win no Russian fans.
Possibly, one of his most accessible films - is he mellowing with age?
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
In London, the Russian pregnant teenager Tatiana arrives bleeding in a hospital, and the doctors save her baby only. The Russian descendant midwife Anna Khitrova finds Tatiana's diary written in Russian language in her belongings and decided to find her family to deliver the baby, she brings the diary home and ask her uncle Stepan to translate the document. Stepan refuses, but Anna finds a card of a restaurant owned by the Russian Semyon inside the diary and she visits the old man trying to find a lead to contact Tatiana's family. When she mentions the existence of the diary, Semyon immediately offers to translate the document. However, Stepan translates part of the diary and Anna discovers that Semyon and his sick son Kirill had raped Tatiana when she was fourteen years old and forced her to work as prostitute in a brothel of their own. Further, Semyon is the dangerous boss of the Russian mafia "Vory v Zakone", jeopardizing the safety of Anna and her family.
Cast & Characters
Josef Altin as Ekrem;
Mina E. Mina as Azim;
Aleksander Mikic as Soyka;
Sarah-Jeanne Labrosse as Tatiana;
Lalita Ahmed as Customer;
Badi Uzzaman as Chemist;
Naomi Watts as Anna;
Dona Croll as Nurse;
Raza Jaffrey as Doctor Aziz;
Sinead Cusack as Helen;
Jerzy Skolimowski as Stepan;
Tatiana Maslany as Tatiana;
Viggo Mortensen as Nikolai;
Vincent Cassel as Kirill;
Armin Mueller-Stahl as Semyon