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Eastern Promises (2007)

Name: Eastern Promises
Director: David Cronenberg
Genre: drama film, action film, crime film
Duration: 101 min
Rating: 7.6

Eastern Promises is a 2007 gangster crime thriller film directed by David Cronenberg and written by Steven Knight. Starring Viggo Mortensen, Naomi Watts, Vincent Cassel, and Armin Mueller-Stahl, the film follows Anna Khitrova (Watts), a Russian-British midwife who delivers the baby daughter of a drug-addicted 14-year-old Russian prostitute named Tatiana. After Tatiana dies in childbirth, Anna reads the girl's diary…

Directed by David Cronenberg · Shot by Peter Suschitzky · Cut by Ronald Sanders · Music by Howard Shore · 101 min

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Behind the scenes

Behind the Scenes: Eastern Promises (Cronenberg, 2007) with Viggo Mortensen and Naomi Watts — Serious Feather · 17 min
VOR V ZAKONE | Field Study #2 | EASTERN PROMISES | David Cronenberg: Virtual Exhibition — TIFF · 5 min
Eastern Promises | Vincent Cassel | BAFTA: A Life in Pictures — BAFTA · 2 min
CRAFT: Research | EASTERN PROMISES | David Cronenberg: Virtual Exhibition — TIFF · 6 min

Elsewhere

More by David Cronenberg

Transfer — 1966
From the Drain — 1967
Stereo — 1969
Crimes of the Future — 1970
The Italian Machine — 1976
Shivers — 1976
Rabid — 1978
The Brood — 1979
Fast Company — 1979
Scanners — 1981
The Dead Zone — 1983
Videodrome — 1983
The Fly — 1986
Dead Ringers — 1988
Naked Lunch — 1991
M. Butterfly — 1993
Crash — 1996
Existenz — 1999
Camera — 2000
Spider — 2002
A History of Violence — 2005
To Each His Own Cinema — 2007
A Dangerous Method — 2011
Cosmopolis — 2012
Maps to the Stars — 2014
Crimes of the Future — 2022
The Shrouds — 2024

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