The Promise
From: Thursday, 14th February 2002
To: Saturday, 16 March 2002
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Synopsis
In the savage 1942 winter siege of Leningrad, as the Russians fight off the Nazi invaders, three teenagers, Lika, Marat and Leonidik are thrown together. Losing everything from their pasts, they forge a new love that binds them together and a new hope which keeps them alive: the promise of a better future. After the war, now Heroes of the Soviet Union, Marat and Leonidik both return to the only woman they could ever love, and Lika is forced to make an impossible choice between two men who keep the promise alive.
Our Review:
26 February 2002
"Remember the days when we buried people one by one and made a fuss about it?" So says the 17-year-old boy in Alexi Arbuzov's tale of love under fire. The Promise is all about the dreams of youth, even in the most dire circumstances, and the promise of a better tomorrow.
It's Leningrad, 1942, a city under siege. A young man, Marat, returns to his tiny bedsit to find a squatter. She is Lika, and according to Marat 'lucky' to have survived so far without him, so the two set about forging an existence amid the air raids in the derelict building. They are soon joined by Leonidik, and the displaced teenagers become a surrogate family unit. But three's a crowd, and although it's clear Marat and Lika are in love, he leaves to join up and Leonidik shortly follows, out of obligation. So the love triangle begins and we watch the developments in 1946 as the war ends, when Marat returns a hero, Leonidik with only one arm and finally in 1959.
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Creative
Aleksei Arbuzov (Author)
Ariadne Nicolaeff (Translation)
Nick Dear (Adaptation)
Nicolas Kent (Director)
Bunny Christie (Design)
Matthew England (Lighting)
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