Viggo Mortensen stars in Eastern Promises, a new David Cronenberg thriller set in London, in the dangerous underworld of sex trafficking.
The film was written by Steve Knight, who wrote the screenplay for Dirty Pretty Things.
Cronenberg and Mortensen's last collaboration was the acclaimed 2005 film A History of Violence.
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