Eastern Promises
2007 · Movie · 99 min. · United Kingdom
Mysterious, charismatic Russian-born Nikolai is the chauffeur for one of the most notorious families in the Eastern European crime ring. Headed by Semyon, the charming owner of an expensive Russian restaurant whose smiling face conceals a brutal, cold-blooded other side, the family fortune is upset by Kirill, his mad son, who listens more to Nikolai than he does to his own father. But the cautious Nikolai has an instant change of face on meeting Anna, a midwife working in a London hospital. Anna is badly upset by the conditions surrounding the death of a young girl in childbirth, and decides to find her family based on the diary she left, written in Russian. Digging into the diary, Anna unwittingly unleashes the gangsters’ fury.
Direction David Cronenberg
Cast Viggo Mortensen · Naomi Watts · Vincent Cassel · Armin Mueller-Stahl · Sinead Cusack · Donald Sumpter · Jerzy Skolimowski · Josef Altin · Mina E. Mina · Aleksandar Mikic · Tatiana Maslany · Sarah-Jeanne Labrosse · Lalita Ahmed · Badi Uzzman · Dona Croll · Raza Jaffrey · Mia Soteriou · Radoslaw Kaim · Tereza Srbova · Elisa Lasowski · Cristina Catalina · Alice Henley · Tamer Hassan · Michael Sarne · Yuri Klimov · Olegar Fedoro
Soundtrack Howard Shore
Screenplay Steven Knight
Cinematography Peter Suschitzky
Original title Eastern Promises
7.4
57K votes (FilmAffinity)
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