The Promise
2017- 2016 • Feature Film • ReleasedDrama, Period, RomanceIn 1914, as the Great War looms, the mighty Ottoman Empire is crumbling. Constantinople, its once vibrant, multicultural capital, is about to be consumed by chaos. Medical student Michael Boghosian arrives determined to bring modern medicine back to his ancestral village in Southern Turkey where Turkish Muslims and Armenian Christians have lived side by side for centuries. Photo-journalist Chris Myers has come here only partly to cover geo-politics. He is madly in love with Ana, an Armenian artist he has accompanied from Paris after the sudden death of her father. When Michael meets Ana, their shared Armenian heritage sparks an attraction that explodes into a romantic rivalry between the two men. As the Turks form an alliance with Germany and the Empire turns violently against its own ethnic and religious minorities, their conflicting passions must be deferred while they join forces to survive even as events threaten to overwhelm them.
In 1914, as the Great War looms, the mighty Ottoman Empire is crumbling. Constantinople, its once vibrant, multicultural capital, is about to be consumed by chaos. Medical student Michael Boghosian arrives determined to bring modern medicine back to his ancestral village in Southern Turkey where Turkish Muslims and Armenian Christians have lived side by side for centuries. Photo-journalist Chris Myers has come here only partly to cover geo-politics. He is madly in love with Ana, an Armenian artist he has accompanied from Paris after the sudden death of her father. When Michael meets Ana, their shared Armenian heritage sparks an attraction that explodes into a romantic rivalry between the two men. As the Turks form an alliance with Germany and the Empire turns violently against its own ethnic and religious minorities, their conflicting passions must be deferred while they join forces to survive even as events threaten to overwhelm them.
