TY - ADVS AU - Lantos,Robert AU - Webster,Paul AU - Knight,Steven AU - Cronenberg,David AU - Watts,Naomi AU - Mortensen,Viggo AU - Cassel,Vincent AU - Mueller-Stahl,Armin AU - Shore,Howard ED - Serendipity Point Films. ED - BBC Films. ED - Focus Features. ED - Kudos ED - Scion Films. ED - Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm) TI - Eastern promises U1 - 791.43/72 22 PY - 2007/// CY - Universal City, Calif. PB - Universal Home Entertainment KW - Organized crime KW - England KW - London KW - Drama KW - Midwives KW - Russians KW - Orphans KW - London (England) KW - Feature films KW - Thrillers (Motion pictures, television, etc.) KW - Gangster films N1 - Title from container; Widescreen; English and French language tracks, French or Spanish subtitles, English SDH; Originally produced as a motion picture in 2007; Special features: 'Secrets and stories'; 'Marked for life'; Director of photography, Peter Suschitzky ; editor, Ronald Sanders ; music, Howard Shore ; costume designer, Denise Cronenberg ; production designer, Carol Spier; Naomi Watts, Viggo Mortensen, Vincent Cassel, Armin Mueller-Stahl; MPAA rating: R; strong brutal and bloody violence, some graphic sexuality, language, and nudity N2 - Russian-born Nikolai Luzhin is a driver for one of London's most notorious organized crime families of Eastern European origin. Semyon heads the syndicate but fortunes are tested by Semyon's volatile son and enforcer, Kirill. Nikolai's carefully maintained existence is jarred once he crosses paths at Christmastime with Anna Khitrova, a midwife at a North London hospital ER -