Eastern Promises/Trivia


 * Fake Nationality: The film stars Russians played by: A Danish-American (Nikolai's Viggo Mortensen), a Frenchman (Kirill's Vincent Cassell), a German (Semyon's Armin-Mueller Stahl), and a Pole (Stepan's Jerzy Skolimowski). Anna, an Englishwoman of Russian descent, is played by the British-Australian Naomi Watts.
 * The Chechen assassins were played by Turkish Cypriots.