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Eastern Promises (2007)  link to Eastern Promises on IMDb  

Number: 761

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IMDb Rating:
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7.7/10 (202.6K votes)

Country: UK, 100 minutes

Spoken languages: English, Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian

Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Director(s): David Cronenberg

Storyline:
In London, the Russian pregnant teenager Tatiana arrives bleeding in a hospital, and the doctors save her baby only. The Russian descendant midwife Anna Khitrova finds Tatiana's diary written in Russian language in her belongings and decided to find her family to deliver the baby, she brings the diary home and ask her uncle Stepan to translate the document. Stepan refuses, but Anna finds a card of a restaurant owned by the Russian Semyon inside the diary and she visits the old man trying to find a lead to contact Tatiana's family. When she mentions the existence of the diary, Semyon immediately offers to translate the document. However, Stepan translates part of the diary and Anna discovers that Semyon and his sick son Kirill had raped Tatiana when she was fourteen years old and forced her to work as prostitute in a brothel of their own. Further, Semyon is the dangerous boss of the Russian mafia "Vory v Zakone", jeopardizing the safety of Anna and her family. Meanwhile, Semyon's ...

Cast:

Josef Altin Ekrem
Sarah-Jeanne Labrosse Tatiana
Lalita Ahmed Customer
Naomi Watts Anna
Raza Jaffrey Doctor Aziz

Medium: DVD R/RW, Dolby Digital 5.1 - English

Location: Drawer 4 Slot 95

Loaned: No

Aspect ratio: 1.85:1