Director Cronenberg & actor Viggo Mortenson re-team after last years The History Of Violence. This Russian mob drama – deals...
Director Cronenberg & actor Viggo Mortenson re-team after last years The History Of Violence. This Russian mob drama – deals with the impact of violence, crime and secrets.
The mysterious, Russian-born Nikolai Luzhin (Mortensen) is a driver for one of London’s most notorious organised crime families of Eastern European origin – part of the Vory V Zakone criminal brotherhood. Nikolai’s carefully maintained existence is upset once he crosses paths with Anna Khitrova (Naomi Watts), a midwife at a North London hospital. Anna is deeply affected by the desperate situation of a young teenager who dies while giving birth to a baby. Anna resolves to try to trace the baby’s relatives, via the teenager’s diary. Written in Russian, Anna seeks answers in it, and in doing so accidentally unleashed the full fury of the Vory. With the mob closing ranks and Anna pressing her inquiries, Nikolai unexpectedly finds his loyalties divided. The family tightens its grip on him; who can, or should, he trust? Several lives hang in the balance as a harrowing chain of murder, deceit, and retribution reverberates through the darkest corners of both the family and London itself.
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- Award winner
- Winner of the People's Choice Award, 2007 Toronto Film Festival.
- Rating
- R18, Graphic Violence & Sex Scenes
- Runtime
- 96
- Genre
- Thriller
- Country of origin
- UK, Canada