The Promise (2016)

Directors

Terry George

Cast

Oscar Isaac, Charlotte Le Bon, Christian Bale, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Marwan Kenzari, Angela Sarafyan, Tom Hollander, Numan Acar, Igal Naor, Tamer Hassan, Alicia Borrachero, Abel Folk, Jean Reno, James Cromwell, Kevork Malikyan, Roman Mitichyan, Carlos Miranda, Stewart Scudamore, Andrew Tarbet, Aharon Ipalé, Aaron Neil, Julián Villagrán, Marco Khan, Nacho Aldeguer, Simón Andreu, Vic Tablian, Alain Hernández, Luis Callejo, Osman Soykut, Michael Stahl-David, Rade Šerbedžija

The story

Mikael Boghosian is an apothecary who lives in the small Armenian village of Siroun in the southeast part of Turkey, within the Ottoman Empire. In order to help pay the expenses for medical school, he promises to marry Maral, the daughter of an affluent neighbor, receiving 400 gold coins as a dowry. This allows him to travel to Constantinople and attend the Imperial School of Medicine.

Genres

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