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Eastern Promises (8-Sep-2007)

Director: David Cronenberg

Writer: Steven Knight

Keywords: Crime, Pregnancy

Mystery flick follows a Russian teenager dead from childbirth as she leaves behind a journal containing clues leading to a terrible truth behind her fatal pregnancy.

ABSTRACT
Tatiana, a pregnant teenager of Russian extraction, dies in a London hospital as her baby is successfully delivered. Shortly thereafter, British-Russian midwife Anna Khitrova discovers a Russian-language diary on her person, containing clues as to her identity and possible family back home; a subsequent effort by the idealistic Anna to locate a home for the orphan child leads to great peril, as a mystery forms ultimately pointing to a drug-fueled rape going up to the highest orders of the Russian mob.

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Vincent Cassel
Actor
23-Nov-1966   Irréversible
Sinéad Cusack
Actor
18-Feb-1948   Stealing Beauty
Tatiana Maslany
Actor
22-Sep-1985   Orphan Black
Viggo Mortensen
Actor
20-Oct-1958   Aragorn in Lord of the Rings
Armin Mueller-Stahl
Actor
17-Dec-1930   Shine
Naomi Watts
Actor
28-Sep-1968   First you see The Ring, then you die

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