A Promise

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5.7	IMDB rating

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Directed by

Patrice Leconte

Starring (View all)

Rebecca Hall
Lotte Hoffmeister

Alan Rickman
Karl Hoffmeister

Richard Madden
Friedrich Zeitz

Maggie Steed
Frau Hermann

Shannon Tarbet
Anna

Jean-Louis Sbille
Hans, the Butler

Sarah Messens
Magda, the Maid

Jonathan Sawdon
Engineer

Written by

Patrice Leconte
screenplay

Stefan Zweig
novel 'Journey Into the Past'

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A Promise

4 years, 11 months ago at May 19 19:40

JxSxPx

You gotta love it when an adaptation of a period piece in a European country that is not England winds up getting a very English makeover. Or not. A Promise is very much a headscratcher in this regard. Here’s a story that explicitly takes place in Germany pre-WWI but is cast from top to bottom with British talent not even bothering with attempting an accent. It’s like when ancient Greece is un... read more

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A romantic drama set in Germany just before WWI and centered on a married woman who falls in love with her husband's protégé. Separated first by duties and then by the war, they pledge their devotion to one another.

Release date: 16 April 2014

Tags: Germany (2), Romance (1), Love Triangle (1), WWI (1), Based On Book (1), Book-To-Film (1)

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A Promise

“You gotta love it when an adaptation of a period piece in a European country that is not England winds up getting a very English makeover. Or not. A Promise is very much a headscratcher in this regard. Here’s a story that explicitly takes place in Germany pre-WWI but is cast from top to bottom with British talent not even bothering with attempting an accent. It’s like when ancient Greece is uniformly white and populated by posh accents – something is curiously hilarious about it all. Does this sound like nitpicking? Perhaps, but nothing much in A Promise works as it should, so my mind may have wondered a bit. You see, A Promise is basically a will they/won’t they romance wrapped up in fidgety, mannered indifference and dispassionate verbal exchanges that never sells its centra” read more