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Release year: 2016

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Set during the last days of the Ottoman Empire, The Promise follows a love triangle between Michael, a brilliant medical student, the beautiful and sophisticated Ana, and Chris - a renowned American journalist based in Paris.

Top credits

Directors

Terry George

Writers

Cast

Oscar Isaac — Mikael Boghosian
Charlotte Le Bon — Ana Khesarian
Christian Bale — Chris Myers
Daniel Giménez Cacho — Reverend Dikran Antreassian

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Did you know

• All the proceeds from the film's theatrical run went to nonprofit organizations, including the Elton John AIDS Foundation and other human rights and humanitarian groups.

• The priest on the set of film was a real Armenian priest from Armenia that happened to live in Spain. Etchmiadzin, one of the oldest cities in Armenia, has three sister churches and this is where he was ordained. He actually married Oscar and Angela on set, with the true Armenian prayer they would do at any traditional Armenian wedding. Those prayers were true in 1915 and remain the same to this day. He said in the end, "I need to divorce you, because you are technically married in the eyes of God."

• The scene between US Ambassador Henry Morgenthau and Turkish Interior Minister Talaat Pasha is taken entirely from Ambassador Morgenthau's memoirs. When Talaat seeks the insurance money for the Armenians he had ordered killed, it is almost verbatim. The memoirs read: "I wish," Talaat now said, "that you would get the American life insurance companies to send us a complete list of their Armenian policy holders. They are practically all dead now and have left no heirs to collect the money. It of course all escheats to the State. The Government is the beneficiary now. Will you do so?" [Henry Morgenthau, Ambassador Morgenthau's Story, New York: Doubleday, 1918, page 339]