The Promise is a historical drama by Terry George, which is raising a lot of dust even before it arrives in cinemas. It takes us back to the time of the Ottoman Empire, which carried out the genocide of the Armenian population in 1915, which serves as the backdrop for a love triangle consisting of Christian Bale, Oscar Isaac and Charlotte le Bon. Although only a handful have seen the film so far, it already has almost 90,000 reviews on iMDB. On the one hand, he gets tens, and on the other, only ones, and people more than obviously evaluate the film according to its political beliefs and not its quality or. truthfulness. It is one of the most expensive independent films of all time. They spent as much as 100 million dollars on it!
The Promise it is historical drama, where it is the backdrop for a love story genocide, which Turkey (still as the Ottoman Empire) carried out between 1915 and 1922 on the Armenians who then inhabited eastern part of Turkey. The authorities killed via 1.5 million men, women and children, erasing all traces of them. 100 million drama debuted at the Toronto Film Festival, although it hasn't hit the regular cinema schedule yet (it's supposed to happen once before the end of 2016), but it has on IMDb already so many reviews as if.
In fact, they have been implemented so far only three projections, so people are more than obviously judging the movie by political persuasion, since most IMDb users haven't even seen it. That's why it has an incredible amount on one side tens (a little over 30 thousand), and according to the second even more ones (almost 60 thousand) and only a few estimates in between. The current average rating based on 90 thousand ratings is 4.2, which is of course not a realistic indicator.
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The film tells the story of an Armenian medical student (Oscar Isaac) and to an American journalist (Christian Bale), who fall in love with the same artist during their stay in Constantinople (Charlotte le Bon), in love triangle however, the government cuts down roughly, which first begins mass deportations, and then mass murders of Armenians. Although the film processes extremely sensitive topic, which burdens Turkey even today, is directed by Terry George known for his ability to handle historically sensitive subjects correctly. Last but not least, he made a film Hotel Rwanda.
The film was a personal project until his death in 2015 Kirk Kerkorian, a businessman of Armenian roots who once owned a studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
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Historical drama
The Promise
(Spain, USA, 2016)
Direction: Terry George. They play: Oscar Isaac, Christian Bale, Charlotte Le Bon, Rade Serbedzija, Jean Reno, Jean Claude Ricquebourg, Ozman Sirgood.
In the cinema from December 2016.
