Set during the last days of the Ottoman Empire, The Promise follows a love triangle between Michael, a brilliant medical student, the beautiful and sophisticated Ana, and Chris - a renowned ... Read allSet during the last days of the Ottoman Empire, The Promise follows a love triangle between Michael, a brilliant medical student, the beautiful and sophisticated Ana, and Chris - a renowned American journalist based in Paris.Set during the last days of the Ottoman Empire, The Promise follows a love triangle between Michael, a brilliant medical student, the beautiful and sophisticated Ana, and Chris - a renowned American journalist based in Paris.
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- TriviaAll 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.
- GoofsNear 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.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Intent to Destroy: Death, Denial & Depiction (2017)
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Written and Performed by Chris Cornell
¨The Promise¨ follows a love triangle among a medical student , a sophisticated women and an prestigious American reporter . The film has an acid critic to the indolence of European nations and international community and specially , the abandon of foreign policy . Protagonist trio gives sensational performance , accompanied by a great support cast , such as Daniel Giménez Cacho , Tom Hollander , Angela Sarafyan , Alicia Borrachero , Jean Reno , Rade Serbedzija ,and James Cromwell as Ambassador Morgenthau . The movie has a colorful and evocative cinematography by Javier Aguirresarobe , being filmed in 72 days across 20 locations throughout Spain , Malta, Portugal and New York. And a touching and moving musical score by Gabriel Yared . The motion picture was compellingly directed by Terry George who previoulsy made ¨In the name of the father¨ (1993) and ¨Hotel Rwanda¨ (2004)) . Terry was fully backed by the Kerkorian Foundation as well as an Armenian-American production company . Terry said : there's a difference between a perception of a story and the veracity of a story, we never wanted to dictate perception, just tell the truth . Rating : Awesome and above average . Indispensable and essential watching .
The flick is based on actual events , these are the following ones : It's calculated that in the indiscriminate massacre were cruelly killed by Turks approximately 1.5 million Armenians . This brutal genocide against Armenians is called ¨Armenian Holocaust¨ that was the Ottoman government's systematic extermination of Armenians , mostly Ottoman citizens within the Ottoman Empire and its successor state, the Republic of Turkey . The starting date is conventionally held to be 24 April 1915, the day that Ottoman authorities rounded up, arrested, and deported 235 to 270 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders from Constantinople to the region of Ankara, the majority of whom were eventually murdered. The genocide was carried out during and after World War I and implemented in two phases: the wholesale killing of the able-bodied male population through massacre and subjection of army conscripts to forced labour, followed by the deportation of women, children, the elderly, and the infirm on death marches leading to the Syrian desert. Driven forward by military escorts, the deportees were deprived of food and water and subjected to periodic robbery, rape, and massacre.Other indigenous and Christian ethnic groups such as the Assyrians and the Ottoman Greeks were similarly targeted for extermination by the Ottoman government in the Assyrian genocide and the Greek genocide, and their treatment is considered by some historians to be part of the same genocidal policy. Reports of the conflict reached then United States Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire Henry Morgenthau , Sr. from Aleppo and Van, prompting him to raise the issue in person with Talaat and Enver. As he quoted to them the testimonies of his consulate officials, they justified the deportations as necessary to the conduct of the war, suggesting that complicity of the Armenians of Van with the Russian forces that had taken the city justified the persecution of all ethnic Armenians. The Armenians were marched out to the Syrian town of Deir ez-Zor and the surrounding desert. There is no evidence that the Ottoman government provided the extensive facilities and supplies that would have been necessary to sustain the life of hundreds of thousands of Armenian deportees during their forced march to the Syrian desert or after . By August 1915, The New York Times repeated an unattributed report that "the roads and the Euphrates are strewn with corpses of exiles, and those who survive are doomed to certain death. It is a plan to exterminate the whole Armenian people". Talaat Pasha and Djemal Pasha were completely aware that by abandoning the Armenian deportees in the desert they were condemning them to certain death . Most Armenian diaspora communities around the world came into being as a direct result of the genocide.
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- $90,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $8,224,288
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $4,095,718
- Apr 23, 2017
- Gross worldwide
- $12,448,676
- Runtime2 hours 13 minutes
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- 2.35 : 1