During the Ottoman Empire, immediately before the Armenian Genocide, a love triangle develops between a gifted Armenian medical student, a Paris-based American journalist and an Armenian-born woman raised in France. Drama, starring Oscar Isaac, Charlotte Le Bon and Christian Bale
There are distinct shades of Doctor Zhivago about this weighty, worthy and old-fashioned "epic" historical romance. A love triangle comprising Christian Bale, Oscar Isaac and French-Canadian actress Charlotte Le Bon plays out against a Turkey engulfed both by the First World War and by its sectarian genocide of the country's Armenian minority. Bale plays a US journalist, Isaac an Armenian country doctor, and Le Bon the Armenian artist who ignites passions in the two men. For all its ambition and good intentions, The Promise fails to strike quite the right balance between romance and historical exposition, and struggles to find breathing space for its sheer breadth of material, despite a generous running time. But it's a handsomely mounted affair that performs better than many other films made in accented English, so should appeal to lovers of period romance with a bit of stamina.
| role | name |
|---|---|
| Mikael Pogosian | Oscar Isaac |
| Ana | Charlotte Le Bon |
| Chris Myers | Christian Bale |
| Marta | Shohreh Aghdashloo |
| Stephan | Rade Serbedzija |
| Henry Morgenthau | James Cromwell |
| Garin | Tom Hollander |
| French admiral | Jean Reno |
| role | name |
|---|---|
| Director | Terry George |
