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Eastern Promises
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Eastern Promises is a 2007 crime, drama, and mystery film directed by David Cronenberg and written by Steven Knight. The cast includes Naomi Watts, Vincent Cassel, and Armin Mueller-Stahl. Production was handled by Focus Features and Kudos, with Howard Shore composing the music and Ronald Sanders editing. The film was produced in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States, with both narrative and filming locations set in London.
The movie has a runtime of 100 or 101 minutes and was released on September 14, 2007. It features dialogue in Russian and English. Eastern Promises received a Saturn Award for Best International Film and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor. Distribution partners include Netflix, Fandango at Home, and iTunes. Audience ratings stand at 7.6 on IMDb and 7.345 on TMDb.
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7.3A Russian teenager living in London dies during childbirth but leaves clues in her diary that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent Russian mob family.
Cast
- Viggo Mortensen as Nikolai Luzhin
- Naomi Watts as Anna Ivanovna Khitrova
- Vincent Cassel as Kirill
- Armin Mueller-Stahl as Semyon
- Sinéad Cusack as Helen
- Donald Sumpter as Yuri
Themes
- chauffeur
- london, england
- prostitute
- jealousy
- rape
- tattoo
- hitman
- parent child relationship
- bratva (russian mafia)
- gangster
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Key facts
- Directed by
- David Cronenberg
- Screenplay by
- Steven Knight
- Produced by
- Paul Webster Robert Lantos
- Starring
- Viggo Mortensen Naomi Watts Vincent Cassel Armin Mueller-Stahl
- Cinematography
- Peter Suschitzky
- Edited by
- Ronald Sanders
- Music by
- Howard Shore
- Production companies
- Focus Features BBC Films Astral Media Corus Entertainment Telefilm Canada Kudos Pictures Serendipity Point Films Scion Films
- Distributed by
- Pathé Distribution (United Kingdom) Alliance Atlantis (Canada) Focus Features (Worldwide)
- Release dates
- September 8, 2007 ( 2007-09-08 ) ( Toronto ) September 14, 2007 ( 2007-09-14 ) (United States) October 26, 2007 ( 2007-10-26 ) (United Kingdom)
- Running time
- 101 minutes
- Countries
- United Kingdom, Canada
- Languages
- English, Russian, Ukrainian
- Budget
- $27 million
- Box office
- $56.1 million
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Encyclopedic overview
Eastern Promises is a 2007 gangster crime thriller film directed by David Cronenberg and written by Steven Knight. Starring Viggo Mortensen, Naomi Watts, Vincent Cassel, and Armin Mueller-Stahl, the film follows Anna Khitrova (Naomi Watts), a Russian-British midwife who delivers the baby daughter of a drug-addicted 14-year-old Russian prostitute named Tatiana. After Tatiana dies in childbirth, Anna reads the girl's diary and discovers that she was trafficked by the Russian Mafia in London. When Semyon (Mueller-Stahl), the leader of the mobsters and the owner of the Trans-Siberian Restaurant, threatens the baby's life, Anna is warned off by both his immature son, Kirill (Cassel), and his menacing bodyguard and driver, Nikolai Luzhin (Mortensen).
Principal photography began in London on November 19, 2006, and concluded on February 16, 2007. The film has been noted for its treatment of the subject of sex trafficking, and for its violence and realistic depiction of Russian career criminals, which includes the detailed portrayal of the tattoos which indicate their crimes and criminal status.
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