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Eastern Promises is a 2007 British-Canadian gangster film directed by David Cronenberg from a screenplay by Steven Knight.The film tells the story of Anna (Naomi Watts), a Russian-British midwife who delivers the baby of a drug-addicted 14-year-old trafficked Ukrainian girl who dies in childbirth.
Nikolai Nikolayevich Luzin (also spelled Lusin; Russian: Никола́й Никола́евич Лу́зин, IPA: [nʲɪkɐˈlaj nʲɪkɐˈlajɪvʲɪtɕ ˈluzʲɪn] ⓘ; 9 December 1883 – 28 February 1950) was a Soviet and Russian mathematician known for his work in descriptive set theory and aspects of mathematical analysis with strong connections to point-set topology.
The Case of the Anti-Soviet "Bloc of Rightists and Trotskyites" (or "Bloc of Rights and Trotskyites") (Russian: Процесс антисоветского «право-троцкистского блока»), also known as the Trial of the Twenty-One, was the last of the three public Moscow trials charging prominent Bolsheviks with espionage and treason.
Eastern Promise, a species of the genus Sorbus of trees and shrubs; Eastern Promises, a 2007 gangster film directed by David Cronenberg; Full of Eastern Promise may refer to: "Full of Eastern Promise", a slogan used in adverts for the chocolate sweet Fry's Turkish Delight "Full of Eastern Promise", nickname for Hong Kong snooker player Marco Fu ...
And this is an old prison saying/proverb, dating way back in the times of Soviet Union, like a short, dao-way to explain best strategy to survive in prison: a. don’t trust anyone, not amongst fellow prisoners, nor guards/officers, etc. everyone is an enemy; everyone is a treat and may be a spy; b. don’t be afraid, because they will sense ...
Igor also appears on screen in the David Cronenberg film Eastern Promises, singing the Russian folk song "Dark Eyes". He appeared on ITV's Britain's Got Talent in 2019 performing a pop medley. [1] In 2024 he appeared in TV mini series A Gentleman in Moscow playing accordion and singing a medley of Russian folk songs. [citation needed]
Josef Altin (born as Yusuf Altın; 12 February 1983) is a British television and film actor who had the role of Pypar in the HBO fantasy TV series Game of Thrones.Other notable performances is his role as Ekrem in Eastern Promises and his roles in The Bill, Peep Show, and Casualty.
Chess Fever (Russian: Шахматная горячка, romanized: Shakhmatnaya goryachka) is a 1925 Soviet silent comedy film directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin and Nikolai Shpikovsky . Chess Fever is a comedy about the Moscow 1925 chess tournament , made by Pudovkin during the pause in the filming of Mechanics of the Brain . [ 1 ]