One not-so-famous film that caught my eye when I was watching Oscar Isaac's filmography is a Spanish-American film directed by British director Terry George, The Promise, 2016. The film tells about the Armenian genocide in Turkey at the beginning of the last century, carried out by them under the guise of an alleged evacuation, as a result of which for some reason a huge number of Armenians died. Hereditary pharmacist Mikael Bogosyan (Oskar Isaac) lives in the small village of Sirun, no one thinks about whether his neighbor is a Turk or an Armenian, all are served the same way. Michael dreams of becoming a doctor, so he agrees to be engaged to a girl from a wealthy family, so that the money received in the dowry could go to Constantinople to study. Arriving there, he shows good success in his studies, there he will be friends with the Turkish boy Emre, the son of a high-ranking official. There, in the family of his wealthy uncle, he will meet an Armenian girl Anna (Charlotte Le Bon), who grew up, however, in Paris, but moved to Constantinople, she brings up uncles’ children. Despite the engagement, Michael can not resist Anna and immediately falls in love with her, but Anna already has a boyfriend – this is an American journalist Chris Myers (Christian Bale), he works for the Associated Press and writes quite critical notes. After some time, the PMV and mobilization begin, the Turks are given reservations to the school, the Armenians are sent to the army, they want to send Michael there, but Emre intervenes for him, referring to his father, which he does not forgive and immediately sends to the army. This Emre will prove himself a decent man, for which he will pay. And then the events become more and more tragic, a lot will happen, many people will die, including the main characters, but Michael, along with one of his cousins still manage to escape, they will reach America, where he will finish his education and become a doctor, he will adopt a sister, raise and marry. But the memory of events will remain with them forever. The film was quite difficult to watch, as the events were shown without embellishment and they look very cruel, so I watched the film in two receptions. I will not recommend it to everyone, I was interested to see it, because they write that the events there are very true. The film did not receive wide recognition from the modern audience, not that they are now waiting for, they do not need such a theme, very negatively, which was expected, it was treated in Turkey, against him they strongly rebelled, which, however, is not surprising, and even wherever they could, scored him ratings and twisted negative ratings, it came to a scandal. The film was shot entirely on the money of American billionaire of Armenian origin Kirk Kerkorian. The actors play well, you believe them.
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