Anatomy of a genre.

The Canadian director David Cronenberg pushes film genres like at the top. His grandiose demi-epic "Deadly Promise - Eastern Promises" is a gangster film, as a playful parody begins to be serious to be bitter.

 

There are many Russians in this movie, but they will be played by a German (Armin Mueller-Stahl), a Frenchman (Vincent Cassel), an American (Viggo Mortensen) or Poland (Jerzy Skolimowski). Nevertheless, David Cronenberg film "Deadly Promise - Eastern Promises" is not a false promise, but a thrilling gangster epic. The director brilliantly synthesized as a violent art world that she is already almost real effect.

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The London midwife Anna (Naomi Watts) has in her life already seen a lot of blood, but now they must learn that the man is human meat grinder. When they are the legacy of a deceased drug addict cares - a small baby and a diary - she with the Russian mafia to each other: a godfather (Mueller-Stahl), his son (Cassel) and his chauffeur (Mortensen). The three have so many skeletons in the cupboard that it occasionally in the fridge, store them.

DVD EDITION: EASTERN PROMISES

Great Cinema Moments - Eastern Promises
FSK released from 16
Duration about 97 minutes.

Director: David Cronenberg. With Viggo Mortensen, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Naomi Watts

BMG Video / Universum Film
April 2009 - DVD-Video

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If the frozen dead, a chauffeur with a hair dryer again thaw, dissolves the shiver, the first trigger this scene, but in joke on. The horror in this film produces the grotesque, for Cronenberg, this is a logical and entirely organic process: just as the baby at the beginning of the film comes to the world, in the end lead to murder, manslaughter and destruction leads. And Cronenberg always looks exactly the way, no matter whether it is the blood of a pregnant mother or that of a freshly murdered act.

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The Canadian Cronenberg, the great internist in world cinema, in his films like the inside of the human body returns to the outside, even from a brutal knife fight in a steam bath murderous slapstick. He is pushing the clichés of the gangster film to the limit to parody - and then suddenly revert back to the bitter Ernst. So Cronenberg shows the viewer in "Fatal promises" the anatomy of a genre - the living, pulsating violently object.