Eastern Promises

Jim & I just finished watching "Eastern Promises" and I definitely recommend this movie. It is about a midwife/nurse, Anna (Naomi Watts) who works in a hospital when a pregnant Russian teenager, Tatiana came bleeding. She wasn't able to save the teenager but the baby girl survived. Anna finds Tatiana's diary written in Russian language in her belongings and decided to find her family to deliver the baby. She brings the diary home and ask her uncle Stepan (who is Russian) to translate the document. Stepan refuses, but Anna finds a card of a restaurant owned by the Russian, Semyon (Armin Mueller-Stahl) inside the diary and she visits the old man trying to find a lead to contact Tatiana's family. When she mentions the existence of the diary, Semyon immediately offers to translate the document. However, Stepan translates part of the diary and Anna discovers that Semyon and his sick son Kirill had raped Tatiana when she was fourteen years old and forced her to work as prostitute in a brothel of their own. Further, Semyon is the dangerous boss of the Russian mafia "Vory v Zakone", jeopardizing the safety of Anna and her family. Meanwhile, Semyon's driver Nikolai Luzhin (Viggo Mortensen) gets close to Kirill and Semyon, climbing positions in the criminal organization, but he helps Anna, her family and the baby.

The movie is very good though there are quite a few violent scenes in it. Definitely not a movie for kids to watch. Do see it if you can.

Other movies by actors in this movie that I recommend watching:
1) A History of Violence - Viggo Mortensen
2) Lord of the Rings (all 3 movies) - Viggo Mortensen
3) King Kong - Naomi Watts
4) 21 Grams - Naomi Watts
5) 12 Angry Men - Armin Mueller-Stahl