From Other Reviews: (I couldn't say it better). An incredibly important and confronting subject presented in a cinematically rich and accessible package, The Promise
urges its audience not to forget the genocide of the Armenian people
in this emotionally driven, impeccably performed historical drama.Some moments in history are often used as cinematic fodder. Usually, they represent the worst of humanity: the triumphs and atrocities of WWII; the inhumanities and resulting resistance of the civil rights movement; and the recent terrorist attacks by Islamic extremists. Little however has been put to celluloid when it comes to one of the worst war crimes of the 20th century, the systematic genocide of the Armenian people at the hands of the Ottoman Empire during 1915.
