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An impassive, quietly spoken man, Nikolai hides behind wrap-around dark glasses and brings to mind Churchill's remark that Russia resembles 'a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma'.

She becomes involved with his violent, drunken, sex-trafficking son Kirill (Vincent Cassel), and the family's chauffeur and enforcer Nikolai (Viggo Mortensen). Anna, whose late father was a Russian émigré, courageously investigates (her concern for the child reinforced by her own recent miscarriage) and meets the paternal Semyon, owner of an opulent restaurant, the Trans-Siberia, near Smithfield Market.

The girl dies giving birth to a daughter but leaves a diary that inculpates in her death the Russian gang boss Semyon (Armin Mueller-Stahl), a member of the notorious Vory V Zakone criminal brotherhood. The story centres on a midwife, Anna (Naomi Watts), who tends to a pregnant 14-year-old Russian prostitute. There was talk of him returning to London to film another British novel adapted by its author, Martin Amis's London Fields this project appears to be in turnaround (a wonderful Hollywood term for abeyance or abandonment) but Cronenberg has come back to the same general area with Eastern Promises, an engrossing thriller about the Russian mafia's British operations set around Finsbury and Clerkenwell.

#MOVIE EASTERN PROMISES MOVIE#

T he maverick Canadian horror movie specialist David Cronenberg worked in London five years ago on a film version of Patrick McGrath's novel Spider, which takes place largely in the mind of a schizophrenic (brilliantly played by Ralph Fiennes) living in a half-way house in London's East End.

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