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Promise, The Striking cinematography highlights this captivating, factually inspired, well-acted, evenly paced, bittersweet, violent, star-studded (James Cromwell, Tom Hollander, Jean Reno, Rade Serbedzija, Andrew Tarbet, et al.), 135-minute, romantic, 2016 film with the Ottoman Empire as the backdrop and based on Franz Werfel's 1933 novel The Forty Days of Musa DaghAssociated Press photojournalist (Christian Bale) based in Paris and covering the Armenian Genocide, and then suddenly finds himself in a Turkish labor camp building a railroad in the Taurus Mountains after trying to save his wealthy cousin who was arrested, and then finally after escaping and returning home, he joins other Armenians trying to stand up and fight the Turkish army who have slaughtered more than 1.5 million Armenians.
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Promise, The on the Internet Movie Database
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