Eastern Promises
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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.
Released: 2007-09-14100 minDir: David CronenbergThriller, Crime, Mystery
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
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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
Key dates
- Published
- 1 January 2007
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- thriller film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Director
- David Cronenberg
- Screenwriter
- Steven Knight
- Cast member
- Olegar Fedoro
- Composer
- Howard Shore
- Producer
Article
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.