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Eastern Promises is a 2007 British-Canadian gangster film directed by David Cronenberg from a screenplay by Steven Knight. The film tells the story of Anna ( Naomi Watts ), a Russian-British midwife who delivers the baby of a drug-addicted 14-year old trafficked Ukrainian girl who dies in childbirth. After Anna learns that the teen was forced ...
- $56.1 million
- Howard Shore
- $50 million
Sep 21, 2007 · Eastern Promises: Directed by David Cronenberg. With Josef Altin, Mina E. Mina, Aleksandar Mikic, Sarah-Jeanne Labrosse. A teenager who dies during childbirth leaves clues in her journal that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent Russian mob family.
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Sep 14, 2007 · Nikolai (Viggo Mortensen), who is both ruthless and mysterious, has ties to one of the most dangerous crime families in London. He crosses paths with Anna (Naomi Watts), a midwife who has come ...
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Sep 13, 2007 · David Cronenberg's "Eastern Promises" opens with a throat-slashing and a young woman collapsing in blood in a drugstore, and connects these events with a descent into an underground of Russians who have immigrated to London and brought their crime family with them. Like the Corleone family, but with a less wise and more fearsome patriarch, the Vory V Zakone family of the Russian mafia operates ...
The film begins on a rainy night in London. A young Turkish youth named Ekrem (Josef Altin) walks into Azim's barber shop, where Azim (Mina E. Mina) is cutting the hair of Soyka (Aleksandar Mikic) a Russian man. Ekrem locks the door, closes the shades, and changes the sign from open to closed.
Sep 8, 2007 · Eastern Promises. Released 8 September 2007. ... (Viggo Mortensen) is a driver for one of London’s most notorious organized crime families of Eastern European origin. The family itself is part ...