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Article: 'Eastern Promises' lives up to its name with a powerful film
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- Post-Tribune (IN)
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- September 14, 2007
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Nikolai (Viggo Mortensen) is a driver and bodyguard for the Russian mafia in "Eastern Promises."(PHOTO) (FOCUS FEATURES)
David Cronenberg's "Eastern Promises" opens with a throat-slashing and a young woman collapsing in blood in a drugstore, and connects these events with a descent into an underground of Russians who have immigrated to London and brought their crime family with them. Like the Corleone family, but with a less wise and more fearsome patriarch, the Vory V Zakone family of the Russian mafia operates in the shadows of legitimate business -- in this case, a popular restaurant.
The slashing need not immediately ...