Ambientato durante gli ultimi giorni dell'Impero Ottomano, The Promise segue un triangolo amoroso tra Michael, un brillante studente di medicina, la bella e sofisticata Ana, e Chris - un fam... Leggi tuttoAmbientato durante gli ultimi giorni dell'Impero Ottomano, The Promise segue un triangolo amoroso tra Michael, un brillante studente di medicina, la bella e sofisticata Ana, e Chris - un famoso giornalista americano con sede a Parigi.Ambientato durante gli ultimi giorni dell'Impero Ottomano, The Promise segue un triangolo amoroso tra Michael, un brillante studente di medicina, la bella e sofisticata Ana, e Chris - un famoso giornalista americano con sede a Parigi.
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- 3 vittorie e 8 candidature
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- QuizAll the proceeds from the film's theatrical run went to nonprofit organizations, including the Elton John AIDS Foundation and other human rights and humanitarian groups.
- BlooperNear the end, Michael, as the narrator says that Yeva joined the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (actually, he says "Women's Army Corps, a common movie mistake) after the Japanese attack on Pearl, but she is wearing a U.S. Marine Corps uniform.
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Mikael Boghosian: God help me, I want revenge.
Ana: I don't care. Hey, our revenge will be to survive.
- ConnessioniFeatured in Intent to Destroy (2017)
- Colonne sonoreThe Promise
Written and Performed by Chris Cornell
To this day, the Turkish government refuses to admit the crime and its supporters took great lengths to derail this movie by flooding internet cinema sites with poor 1.5 ratings to discourage Americans from seeing the film. This, despite the courageous efforts of Turkish dissidents and opposition political leaders who have dared to speak up on the ugliest episode in their country's history.
The story portrayed against the backdrop of this crucial period of history is a simple one. A gifted medical student, Michael played by Oscar Isaacs (Inside Llewyn Davis/Ex-Machina/A Most Violent Year) whose acting matches the intensity of the times -- receives his betrothed's dowry to complete his medical education in Constantinople. Michael arrives just as the genocide begins and falls in love with the beautiful Anna, an Armenian music protégé --performed by French-Canadian Charlotte Le Bon (The Hundred Foot Journey/The Walk) who lives with her lover Chris Meyers, an AP reporter determined to expose the genocide (played by Christian Bale (Empire of the Sun/American Hustle/American Psycho).
Director Terry George, a native of Belfast, Northern Ireland (Hotel Rwanda/In the Name of the Father/Hart's War) skillfully factors in crises of the heart without trivializing the gravity of the horrific massacre in Anatolia.
I digress here to confess a lesson learned. Coming from a Hellenic heritage scared by 400 years of Ottoman occupation, I expected a larger Greek presence in this movie. My ethnocentric desire to see a Greek army coming to the Armenians' rescue, made me miss entirely the message conveyed in this work. I selfishly asked "...why were my people left out of this flick?" Fortunately, as the end of the movie approached, two thoughts came.
First, the Armenians deserve to have THEIR story told uncluttered by others. Besides, at least we Greeks HAD a country to escape to.
Second, I realized that my people were in the movie and yours were, too. The Cambodians under Pol Pot, Native Americans, the Armenians and the victims of Naziism in Europe: Gypsies, Homosexuals, the horribly so-called "Mental Deficients" the peasants/workers of Russia, and of course, the Jews, are all our people!
Perhaps someday when we realize that our Humanity is all we have to share with one another, such movies will no longer be necessary.
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- Budget
- 90.000.000 USD (previsto)
- Lordo Stati Uniti e Canada
- 8.224.288 USD
- Fine settimana di apertura Stati Uniti e Canada
- 4.095.718 USD
- 23 apr 2017
- Lordo in tutto il mondo
- 12.448.676 USD
- Tempo di esecuzione2 ore 13 minuti
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- 2.35 : 1