LOS ANGELES, Sept 12 — Check out the first trailer for Christian Bale and Oscar Isaac’s war drama The Promise.
Set during the last days of the Ottoman Empire, The Promise follows a love triangle between Michael (Oscar Isaac), a brilliant medical student, the beautiful and sophisticated Ana (Charlotte le Bon), and Chris (Christian Bale) — a renowned American journalist based in Paris.
The film takes place against the backdrop of what’s often referred to as “the Armenian Holocaust” with Isaac and Bale's characters thrown into the middle of the conflict.
The synopsis of the film reads: “It is 1914. As the Great War looms, the vast Ottoman Empire is crumbling. Constantinople (Istanbul), its once vibrant, multicultural capital is about to be consumed by chaos. Michael Boghosian (Isaac), arrives in the cosmopolitan hub as a medical student determined to bring modern medicine back to Siroun, his ancestral village in Southern Turkey where Turkish Muslims and Armenian Christians have lived side by side for centuries. Photo-journalist Chris Myers (Bale), has come here only partly to cover geo-politics. He is mesmerised by his love for Ana (Bon), an Armenian artist he has accompanied from Paris after the sudden death of her father. The Promise is directed by Terry George (of Hotel Rwanda, Reservation Road, The Shore), from a screenplay by Terry George and Robin Swicord.”
The Promise has yet to receive an official release date.
