2007 1h 40m David Cronenberg

Eastern Promises

Name: Eastern Promises
Genre: Crime, Mystery & Thriller, Drama
Released: 2007
Rating: 7.6
Cast: Viggo Mortensen, Naomi Watts, Vincent Cassel, Armin Mueller-Stahl

★ 7.6 IMDb

Crime Mystery & Thriller Drama

A 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.

Writer Steven Knight

Cast Viggo Mortensen, Naomi Watts, Vincent Cassel, Armin Mueller-Stahl

DP Peter Suschitzky

Music Howard Shore

Essays and Criticism

On this film

Eastern Promises by Andrew Tracy, Reverse Shot Eastern Promises by Jonathan Rosenbaum "Armin": Father and Son By Ronald Bergan by Ronald Bergan, FIPRESCI

On David Cronenberg

Evolving Mantras and Restricted Vocabularies by James Lattimer, MUBI Notebook David Cronenberg: 'You don’t want to bore people with how sad you… by David Jenkins, Little White Lies

In conversation with other films

Currency by Robert Koehler, Cinema Scope Woody Allen and David Cronenberg: Double Noir By Grégory Valens by Grégory Valens, FIPRESCI

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