The Promise (2017) | Based on a True Story

The Promise is an interesting case for history in films. This is historic fiction, but is designed specifically to elicit awareness of the subject matter. In fact, it is somewhat humanitarian in that effort, and even more so in other ways. I have a fairly minor problem with it, but in terms of being an introduction to the Armenian genocide, the movie achieves that goal stupendously.
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references:
Raymond Kevorkian, _The Armenian Genocide: A Complete History_ (NY: IB Tauris, 2011). https://amzn.to/2zrw0br

http://www.historyvshollywood.com/reelfaces/the-promise/

https://www.bustle.com/p/the-promise-is-based-on-a-true-story-with-a-fictional-romance-at-its-heart-51758

https://www.thenation.com/article/the-armenian-genocide-finally-gets-its-due-with-the-film-the-promise/

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/04/21/christian-bale-historic-romance-promise-targeted-turkish-online/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenians_in_the_Ottoman_Empire
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Armenia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamidian_massacres
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_Genocide
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenians_in_Turkey
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Wiki:
The Promise is a 2016 American historical drama film directed by Terry George and starring Oscar Isaac, Charlotte Le Bon and Christian Bale, set in the final years of the Ottoman Empire. The film premiered on September 11, 2016, at the Toronto International Film Festival and was released in the United States on April 21, 2017, by Open Road Films.
The Promise is about a love triangle that develops between Mikael (Isaac), an Armenian medical student, Chris (Bale), a Paris-based American journalist, and Ana (Le Bon), an Armenian-born woman raised in France, immediately before the Armenian Genocide. The film was a box office bomb, grossing just $10 million against its $90 million budget, although the studio noted the main purpose of the film was to bring attention to the story, not make money.[4][2]

The Armenian Genocide (Armenian: Հայոց ցեղասպանություն,[note 3] Hayots tseghaspanutyun), also known as the Armenian Holocaust,[6] was the Ottoman government's systematic extermination of 1.5 million Armenians,[note 2] mostly Ottoman citizens within the Ottoman Empire and its successor state, the Republic of Turkey.[7][8] The starting date is conventionally held to be 24 April 1915, the day that Ottoman authorities rounded up, arrested, and deported 235 to 270 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders from Constantinople to the region of Ankara, the majority of whom were eventually murdered. The genocide was carried out during and after World War I and implemented in two phases—the wholesale killing of the able-bodied male population through massacre and subjection of army conscripts to forced labour, followed by the deportation of women, children, the elderly, and the infirm on death marches leading to the Syrian Desert. Driven forward by military escorts, the deportees were deprived of food and water and subjected to periodic robbery, rape, and massacre.[9] Other indigenous and Christian ethnic groups, such as the Assyrians and the Ottoman Greeks, were similarly targeted for extermination by the Ottoman government in the Assyrian genocide and the Greek genocide, and their treatment is considered by some historians to be part of the same genocidal policy.[10][11] Most Armenian diaspora communities around the world came into being as a direct result of the genocide.[12]
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