A Promise 2014 Movie

A romantic drama set in Germany just before WWI and centered on a married woman who falls in love with her husband's protégé. Separated first by duties and then by the war, they pledge their devotion to one another. More details

Directors

Patrice Leconte

Cast

Rebecca Hall Alan Rickman Richard Madden Toby Murray

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drama romance mentor protege relationship germany year 1912 clerk steel factory private secretary steel factory owner older man younger woman relationship marriage mexico extramarital affair adultery unfaithfulness infidelity prologue love triangle scene during opening credits stairway office typewriter engineer reference to freiburg university germany reference to metallurgical chemistry soup clothesline kiss reference to dusseldorf germany circular staircase foundry year 1835 reference to dresden germany reference to leipzig germany year 1839 falling to the ground heart attack medicine illness mansion briefcase doctor steelworks street life limousine steel furnace tea maid reference to johann wolfgang von goethe dead mother father son relationship literature ward of the state portrait painting painting boy tutor piano french reading aloud knocking on a door kissing the back of someone's head toy train set kiss on the cheek latin bank check money apology book library german industry manganese ore metal alloy reference to vera cruz mexico consortium mining rights pianist listening to music steelmaker reference to an american reference to the mexican revolution reference to pancho villa reference to zapata german military adviser reference to europe chauffeur child landlady door key sense of smell smelling a piano trust garret board and lodging promise woman touches a man's critch woman touches a man's chest sex suitcase servant mother dances with son orchestra fantasy sequence factory worker knocking on a limousine window boyfriend girlfriend relationship tuxedo top hat opera theatre box binoculars singer singing thunder lie seizure exile fountain pen crying woman flower breaking a vase of flowers touching hands world globe reference to spain reference to brazil reference to venezuela reference to the atlantic ocean reference to tampico mexico man touches a woman's leg hand up skirt cigar smoking train train station letter voice over letter post office stamp collection newspaper reasding a newspaper fever collapsing on a stairway snow postcard year 1914 toy soldier church bell long distance romance naval blockade butler horse reference to a viennese doctor wine dessert jigsaw puzzle looking out a window reference to copper reference to lisbon portugal reference to athens greece reference to begrade serbia reference to bern swoitzerland reference to brussels belgium reference to copenhagen denmark reference to helsinki finland reference to london england fencing reference to a duel rat catching a rat reference to frankfurt germany reference to billiards reference to a cafe church minister sermon game playing rain warming someone's hands removing someone's boots bell street festival carnival perfume reference to guerlin perfume camera photographer posing for a photograph lost boy search missing boy marching band carnival strongman lake dancer dancing waltz reference to south america gasping for breath shushing someone gun manufacturing straight edge razor wife shaves husband secret pain horse drawn hearse death of husband widow nun boarding school abandonment poem voice over poem lantern memory mourning sleeping end of world war one telephone call telephone haircut fog doorbell homecoming business company armistice guilt house arrest photograph geography student business meeting bedroom hotel parade hotel room hotel room key german soldier swastika bandstand love letter german empire edwardian era reference to amsterdam netherlands reference to new year's eve reference to nickel veterans parade goodbye at train station bedridden affair with the boss's wife factory owner post world war one pre world war one steel mill older husband younger wife relationship intergenerational friendship man boy relationship employer employee relationship industrialist class differences mother son relationship husband wife relationship world war one based on novel male secretary wife cheats on husband

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