One review on 08 Sep 2024

Canada 2007

Running time: 100 mins

Eastern Promises

Director : David Cronenberg 

Setting: London
synopsis extract: A man has his throat slashed in a barbers chair. ...


Cast:

  • Naomi Watts  Anna (lead)
  • Viggo Mortensen  Nikolai (lead villan)


Colour: Colour

Sound: Stereo


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First Seen: Sun 8th Sep 2024
Catalogued: 9th Sep 2024

Synopsis

A man has his throat slashed in a barbers chair. A pregnant girl collapses in a shop and is rushed to hospital where she dies but the baby survives. The midwife in the Emergency Room finds the a card from a Russian Restaurant and the girls diary, written in Russian - she has a Russian Uncle and takes it to him. She has also recently lost a baby (and a partner who left her)

The midwife visits the restaurant and meets the owner. And his son and his son's sidekick who are pretty dodgy.

The diary reveals some nasty secrets about these people who are then trying to recover it and things spiral out of control.

Reviews

by Roger CO on Sun 8th Sep 2024 DVD proj @ home

Brilliant Modern-day Gangster Movie

Full review

With Russian emigrees in London providing the gangster sex trafficing background a young woman has to confront them. Very well made and polished tale, excellent mise-en-scene and atmospheric photography, tautly directed, well acted. Nothing not to like about it.