The Promise (La promesse) (1996)

7.7	Listal rating
7.7	IMDB rating

Directed by

Luc Dardenne

Jean-Pierre Dardenne

Starring (View all)

Jérémie Renier

Igor

Olivier Gourmet

Roger

Assita Ouedraogo

Assita

Jean-Michel Balthazar

Frédéric Bodson

The garage boss

Katarzyna Chrzanowska

Florian Delain

Riri

Hachemi Haddad

Nabil

Written by

Luc Dardenne

Jean-Pierre Dardenne

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A very good movie

2 years, 4 months ago at Feb 1 8:33

johanlefourbe

The Dardennes brothers have made some amazing movies and this is one of my favorite. It is really raw, realistic and spellbiding at the same time. Definitely worth a look.

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Description: Igor and his father, Roger, are making a decent living renting apartments to illegal immigrants and sometimes working them illegally (among other scams). But when the building inspector pays a surprise visit and Amidou falls off a scaffold in his hurry to hide, things start to unravel, particularly when Igor makes a promise to the inj ... (more)

Release date : 16 May 1997
UPC: 717119624248

Cross-Cultural (2), Drama (2), (1), 1990s (1), SnP (1), Spiritual Cinema (1), Sort (1)

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