Eastern Promises (2007)

Eastern Promises rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb7.6/10· 274K votes

Rotten Tomatoes90%

Metacritic83%

TMDb7.3/10· 4K votes

With 90% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 7.6/10 on IMDb and 83/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been very positive.

About Eastern Promises

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.

Cast of Eastern Promises

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  Viggo Mortensen

  as Nikolai Luzhin

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  Naomi Watts

  as Anna Ivanovna Khitrova

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  Vincent Cassel

  as Kirill

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  Armin Mueller-Stahl

  as Semyon

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  Sinéad Cusack

  as Helen

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  Donald Sumpter

  as Yuri

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  Jerzy Skolimowski

  as Stepan

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  Josef Altin

  as Ekrem

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  Aleksandar Mikic

  as Soyka

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  Sarah-Jeanne Labrosse

  as Tatiana

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  Lalita Ahmed

  as Customer

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  Tatiana Maslany

  as Tatiana (voice)

Eastern Promises facts

Budget

$51.5M

Box office

$56.1M

Our take on Eastern Promises

David Cronenberg's 2007 thriller opens with a Russian teenager dying in childbirth in London, leaving behind a diary whose clues could implicate a violent Russian crime family. What follows is a cold, precise plunge into an emigre underworld where loyalty and menace are inseparable. Cronenberg trades his usual body horror for something quieter and more unnerving: the everyday brutality of organized crime rendered with clinical calm. Fans of moody, character-driven crime mysteries will appreciate its restraint and its refusal to romanticize. It rewards patient viewers who like moral ambiguity, atmosphere over action, and a story that tightens slowly rather than explodes. Not for those seeking easy heroes.