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Eastern Promises (DVD, 2008)
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Eastern Promises DVD (2008) Viggo Mortensen, Cronenberg (DIR) cert 18Title: Eastern Promises Leading Actor: Viggo Mortensen Region: Region 2 Duration: 100 mins Format: DVD / Normal Type: DVD No. After a teenage mother dies during childbirth, midwife Anna resolves to try to trace the baby's relatives.
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Nikolai works as a chauffeur for restaurant owner and powerful Mafia kingpin Semyon and his out-of-control son Kirill. Midwife Anna comes crashing into Nikolai's life after discovering the diary of a young Russian woman who dies while giving birth, and her dealings with Semyon, and a subsequent translation of the diary, provide some horrific discoveries. Anna soon finds herself floundering in an alien world full of brutal and bloody violence, and it's not long before her own life hangs perilously in the balance.Product Identifiers
ProducerRobert Lantos, Paul Webster
EAN5060002835906
eBay Product ID (ePID)62884505
Product Key Features
ActorViggo Mortensen, Vincent Cassel, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Naomi Watts
Film/TV TitleEastern Promises
DirectorDavid Cronenberg
LanguageEnglish
Run Time97 Mins
Aspect Ratio16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Release Year2008
FormatDVD
FeaturesWidescreen, 'secrets and Stories' Featurette\'marked for Life' Featurette
GenreDrama, General
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs1
Certificate18
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
ComposerHoward Shore
Additional InformationDavid Cronenberg and Viggo Mortensen follow up 2005's A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE with another joint effort in EASTERN PROMISES. The film takes place in rainswept London, with Mortensen effortlessly inhabiting the role of a chauffeur (named Nikolai) for the Russian Mafia. The stoic Nikolai works for restaurant owner and powerful Mafia kingpin Semyon (Armin Mueller-Stahl) and his out-of-control son Kirill (Vincent Cassel). Cronenberg adds a few generous splashes of blood-red to his otherwise deeply grey cinematic palette as the movie begins, then allows his central storyline to unfold. Midwife Anna (Naomi Watts) comes crashing into Nikolai's life after discovering the diary of a young Russian woman who dies while giving birth, and her dealings with Semyon, and a subsequent translation of the diary, provide some horrific discoveries. Anna soon finds herself floundering in an alien world full of brutal and bloody violence, and it's not long before her own life hangs perilously in the balance. <BR>Fans of A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE will find much to enjoy here, as will longstanding Cronenberg fans who have stuck with the director since his early low-budget horror days. Plenty of themes, ideas, and obsessions that have run right through the director's body of work are present, and he appears to have found a very effective muse in Mortensen. The chief talking points of the film will almost certainly revolve around Mortensen's extended nude sequence and the graphic killings and fight sequences, but EASTERN PROMISES is a weighty piece of work that will undoubtedly attract fans of intelligent, well-crafted thrillers.
ReviewsVariety - A superbly wrought yarn set in the milieu of first-generation Russian mobsters in London that is simultaneously tough-minded and compassionate about the human condition
ScreenwriterSteven Knight
Sound sourceDolby Digital 5.1
Movie/TV TitleEastern Promises
Director of PhotographyPeter Suschitzky
Consumer AdviceContains strong bloody violence
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