Synopsis
A Russian teenager living in London dies during childbirth but leaves clues in her diary that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent Russian mob family.
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Cast
- Viggo MortensenNikolai Luzhin
- Naomi WattsAnna Ivanovna Khitrova
- Vincent CasselKirill
- Armin Mueller-StahlSemyon
- Sinéad CusackHelen
- Donald SumpterYuri
- Jerzy SkolimowskiStepan
- Josef AltinEkrem
- Mina E. MinaAzim
- Aleksandar MikicSoyka
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Variety
A superbly wrought yarn set in the milieu of first-generation Russian mobsters in London that is simultaneously tough-minded and compassionate about the human condition, Eastern Promises instantly takes its place among David Cronenberg's very best films. - 90
Village Voice
A rhapsodic movie directed with considerable formal intelligence and brooding power from an original screenplay by Steve Knight, Eastern Promises is very much a companion to "A History of Violence." - 90
Salon
A dark and mesmerizing immersion into a distinctive world. - 90
The Hollywood Reporter
Cronenberg and screenwriter Steve Knight masterfully orchestrate an atmosphere of danger and dread for a descent into an underworld inhabited by the Russian mafia in London. - 88
Rolling Stone
In Eastern Promises, shot to envelop by the great Peter Suschitzky, Cronenberg brings us face to face with the horror of self. - 88
Chicago Tribune
An unusually strong crime thriller, Eastern Promises comes from director David Cronenberg, a meticulous old-school craftsman of a type that is becoming increasingly rare. - 75
Entertainment Weekly
It's an academic meditation in underworld-thriller drag -- a movie that looks about as close to a straight-ahead, down-and-dirty genre entertainment as anything the director has made since his exploding-head horror days. - 70
New York Magazine (Vulture)
It’s engrossing, and Mueller-Stahl’s mix of Old World chivalry and murderousness is scarier than Jason and Freddy combined.
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