EASTERN PROMISES
synopsis
Anna Khitrova, a midwife at a London hospital delivers a baby girl from an unconscious and hemorrhaging fourteen-year-old prostitute. The prostitute dies during childbirth and has no identification other than a diary, written in Russian and a business card for a restaurant called Trans-Siberian. Wanting to find relatives for the new-born girl, Anna sets out to uncover the mother's identity. Anna visits the restaurant, owned by charismatic Semyon, a boss in the Russian Mafia, who offers to help by translating the diary.
international title: | Eastern Promises |
original title: | Eastern Promises |
country: | United Kingdom, Canada, United States |
year: | 2007 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | David Cronenberg |
release date: | DK 28/09/2007, ES 05/10/2007, NO 19/10/2007, GR 25/10/2007, IS 26/10/2007, UK 26/10/2007, FI 02/11/2007, FR 07/11/2007, LT 16/11/2007, BE 28/11/2007, NL 29/11/2007, PT 29/11/2007, SE 07/12/2007, IT 14/12/2007, DE 27/12/2007 |
screenplay: | Steven Knight |
cast: | Vincent Cassel, Viggo Mortensen, Naomi Watts, Armin Mueller-Stahl |
cinematography by: | Peter Suschitzky |
film editing: | Ronald Sanders |
art director: | Ronald Sanders |
music: | Howard Shore |
producer: | Paul Webster, Robert Lantos |
production: | Kudos, BBC Films, Scion Films, Shine Pictures, Serendipity Point Films (CA), Corus Entertainment [CA], Astral Media [CA], Téléfilm Canada [CA], Focus Features [US] |
distributor: | Pathé Distribution, RCV Film Distribution (NL), Eagle Pictures (IT), TOBIS Film (DE), Blue Sky Media (CZ), Vitória Filme (PT) |