Eastern Promises

Genre: Crime

Worldwide gross$56.1M

THIS SUMMARY CONTAINS SPOILERS. - 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 driver Nikolai Luzhin gets close to Kirill and Semyon, climbing positions in the criminal organization, but he helps Anna, her family and the baby.

🏆 Nominated for 1 Oscar. 28 wins & 74 nominations total

Genres

Crime, Drama, Thriller

Director

David Cronenberg

Cast

Josef Altin, Mina E. Mina, Aleksandar Mikic

Released

21 September 2007

Runtime

1h 40m

Certificate

R

IMDb rating

7.6 / 10

Votes

274,179

Metascore

83

Rotten Tomatoes

89%

Box office

$17,266,000

Budget

$51,500,000

Edition

Base