Review by Morning.star
Unnecessarily violent details.
Availability
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Arden Branch | DVD Easte | Copies Available |
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Central Branch | DVD Easte | On loan until: 16/May/25 |
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Summary & Details
Full Record Details Table
| Title Statement | Eastern promises: Promesses de l'ombre / [DVD] = an Alliance Films release, Focus Features presents in association with BBC Films, a Kudos Pictures/Serendipity Point Films production in association with Scion Films ; produced by Paul Webster, Robert Lantos ; screenplay by Steve Knight ; directed by David Cronenberg. |
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| Alternative Title(s) | Promesses de l'ombre |
| Additional Contributors | Cronenberg, David |
| Mortensen, Viggo,1958- | |
| Watts, Naomi,1968- | |
| Cassel, Vincent,1967- | |
| Publication | Montréal: Alliance Vivafilm :Distributed in Canada by Alliance Films, [2007] |
| Extent of Item | 1 videodisc (101 min.) |
| ISBN | (v.r.) |
| Standard Number (UPC, etc.) | 065935812807 |
| Other Number | 1844648 |
| General Notes | DVD. Disc label title. Originally released as a motion picture in 2007. Full screen version. Special features include: two featurettes. Bilingual packaging (reversible English/French) |
| Performance Credits | Viggo Mortensen, Naomi Watts, Vincent Cassel, Armin Mueller-Stahl. |
| Audience & Ratings | CHV rating: 18A. |
| Languages | English and French language tracks with English and French subtitles.Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.SDH (Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing) |
| System Details | DVD Dolby 5.1 surround. |
| Terms of Use | For home use only. |
| Summary | A Russian-born driver for one of London's organized crime families which in turn is part of the Vory V Zakone criminal brotherhood finds himself torn between a midwife he meets and the criminal family after she inadvertently unleashes the anger of the Vory. |
| Subjects & Genres | |
| By Topic | Russians--Fiction--England--London |
| Organized crime--Fiction | |
| Midwives--Fiction | |
| Orphans--Fiction | |
| Gangster films | |
| Thrillers (Cinéma, télévision, etc.) | |
| Feature films | |
| By Location | London (England)--Fiction |
