R | 1 h 40 min | Thriller | Mystery | Crime

IMDB 7.6 / 10 (246498 votes)

Eastern Promises (2007)

Eastern Promises | United States of America| Canada| United Kingdom

The mysterious and charismatic Russian-born Nikolai Luzhin is a driver for one of London's most notorious organized crime families of Eastern European origin. The family itself is part of the Vory V Zakone criminal brotherhood. Headed by Semyon, whose courtly charm as the welcoming proprietor of the plush Trans-Siberian restaurant impeccably masks a cold and brutal core, the family's fortunes are tested by Semyon's volatile son and enforcer, Kirill, who is more tightly bound to Nikolai than to his own father. But Nikolai's carefully maintained existence is jarred once he crosses paths at Christmastime with Anna Khitrova, a midwife at a North London hospital. Anna is deeply affected by the desperate situation of a young teenager who dies while giving birth to a baby. Anna resolves to try to trace the baby's lineage and relatives. The girl's personal diary also survives her; it is written in Russian, and Anna seeks answers in it. Anna's mother Helen does not discourage her, but Anna's irascible Russian-born uncle Stepan urges caution. He is right to do so; by delving into the diary, Anna has accidentally unleashed the full fury of the Vory. With Semyon and Kirill closing ranks and Anna pressing her inquiries, Nikolai unexpectedly finds his loyalties divided. The family tightens its grip on him; who can, or should, he trust? Several lives - including his own - hang in the balance as a harrowing chain of murder, deceit, and retribution reverberates through the darkest corners of both the family and London itself. Cast: Vigo Mortensen, Naomi Watts, Vincent Cassel Directed by David Cronenberg

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Description

Director

David Cronenberg

Writers

Steven Knight

Stars

Naomi Watts
Anna Ivanova Khitrova

Viggo Mortensen
Nikolai Luzhin

Vincent Cassel
Kirill

Armin Mueller-Stahl
Semyon

Sinéad Cusack
Helen

Donald Sumpter
Yuri

Jerzy Skolimowski
Stepan

Josef Altin
Ekren

Mina E. Mina
Azim

Aleksander Mikic
Soyka

Others...

Budget

51,500,000.00

Revenue

56,106,607.00

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Keywords

prostitute, parent child relationship, gangster, murder, orphan, london england, underworld, undercover, motorcycle, diary, hitman, russian mafia, brutality, jealousy, russian, midwife, human trafficking, bathhouse

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Production

Focus Features, Scion Films, Téléfilm Canada, BBC Films, Shine Pictures, Kudos, Serendipity Point Films, Astral Media, Corus Entertainment, Kudos

Actor

Naomi Watts, Viggo Mortensen, Vincent Cassel, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Sinéad Cusack, Donald Sumpter, Jerzy Skolimowski, Josef Altin, Mina E. Mina, Aleksander Mikic, Sarah-Jeanne Labrosse, Tatiana Maslany, Tereza Srbová, David Papava, Tamer Hassan, Raza Jaffrey, Elisa Lasowski, Alice Henley, Tony Cook

Creators

David Cronenberg (Director), Steven Knight (Screenplay), Robert Lantos (Producer), Paul Webster (Producer), Howard Shore (Original Music Composer), Stephen Garrett (Executive Producer), David M. Thompson (Executive Producer), Jeff Abberley (Executive Producer), Julia Blackman (Executive Producer), Peter Suschitzky (Director of Photography), Carol Spier (Production Design), Ronald Sanders (Editor), Denise Cronenberg (Costume Design), Tracey Seaward (Co-Producer), Deirdre Bowen (Casting), Nina Gold (Casting), Judy Farr (Set Decoration), Mary-Lou Green-Benvenuti (Hairstylist), Christine Blundell (Makeup Artist), Charmaine Fuller (Makeup Artist), Catherine Palmer (Assistant Art Director), Robert J. Dugdale (Scenic Artist), David Packard (Scenic Artist), Paul Sacco (Dolby Consultant), Wayne Griffin (Supervising Sound Editor), Michael O'Farrell (Supervising Sound Editor), Rob Bertola (Sound Effects Editor), Orest Sushko (Sound Re-Recording Mixer), Mark Zsifkovits (Sound Re-Recording Mixer), Fiona Campbell Westgate (Visual Effects Producer), Aaron Weintraub (Visual Effects Supervisor), Paul Herbert (Stunt Coordinator), Alf Tramontin (Steadicam Operator), Roger Tooley (Steadicam Operator), Peter Mountain (Still Photographer), Jennifer Dunnington (Music Editor), David Broder (Location Manager), Susanna Lenton (Script Supervisor), Camilla Stephenson (Location Manager), Prudence Emery (Unit Publicist), Nick Palmer (Supervising Art Director), Rebecca Holmes (Art Direction), Bruce Bigg (Property Master), Lucy Allen (Stunts), Julian Spencer (Stunt Coordinator), Tony Currie (Dialogue Editor), Alastair Gray (Dialogue Editor), Andy Malcolm (Foley Artist), Goro Koyama (Foley Artist), Nick Iannelli (Digital Intermediate Producer), Dave Muscat (Digital Intermediate Editor)

Alternative titles

Şark Vaatleri (TR)
Wschodnie obietnice (PL)
les promesses de l ombre (FR)
Tödliche Versprechen (DE)
이스턴 프라미스 (KR)
Східні обіцянки (UA)
Promesas Peligrosas (MX)
黑幕謎情 (HK)
Promesas del Este (ES)
Senhores do Crime (BR)

Release dates

24.10.2007 (AU)
13.03.2008 (HU)
14.12.2007 (IT)
27.12.2007 (DE)
28.09.2007 (DK)
10.01.2008 (CZ)
26.10.2007 (GB)
07.11.2007 (FR)
14.09.2007 (US)
25.10.2007 (GR)
08.09.2007 (CA)
14.09.2007 (CA)
28.09.2007 (DK)
21.09.2007 (US)
05.10.2007 (ES)
15.11.2007 (UA)
07.12.2007 (SE)
14.04.2010 (SE)
28.05.2008 (SE)
29.11.2007 (PT)

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