71SSIFF - 22/30 September 2023
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Eastern Promises

David Cronenberg
USA - UK - Canada
Opening Film (In competition)
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Mysterious, charismatic Russian-born Nikolai is the chauffeur for one of the most notorious families in the Eastern European crime ring. Headed by Semyon, the charming owner of an expensive Russian restaurant whose smiling face conceals a brutal, cold-blooded other side, the family fortune is upset by Kirill, his mad son, who listens more to Nikolai than he does to his own father. But the cautious Nikolai has an instant change of face on meeting Anna, a midwife working in a London hospital. Anna is badly upset by the conditions surrounding the death of a young girl in childbirth, and decides to find her family based on the diary she left, written in Russian. Digging into the diary, Anna unwittingly unleashes the gangsters? fury.
Director
David Cronenberg
Screenplay
Steven Knight
Photography
Peter Suschitzky
Edition
Ronald Sanders
Music
Howard Shore
Cast
Viggo Mortensen, Naomi Watts, Vincent Cassel, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Sinéad Cusack
Running Time
99 m.
Country
USA - UK - Canada
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