Eastern Promises

The already second cooperation of David Cronenberg with Viggo Mortersen gave birth to an excellent thriller, which is playing with the polarity of innocence faced with human brutality. Driver Nikolaj Lužin is a reliable “cleaner” of a powerful mafia family, for whom nothing is too much. Once, however, he meets a midwife (Naomi Watts), who has discovered a diary of a deceased Russian girl and who wants to investigate into the girl’s past ...