Trivia / The Promise (2011)

• California Doubling:
  • The scenes taking place in Britain were also shot in Israel (albeit with a very convincing desaturated filter).
  • Deleted scenes exist of Len's unit witnessing the torching of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp (located in Lower Saxony, Germany). However, this too was very obviously shot in what looks like a very mediterranean olive grove.
• Reality Subtext: Most of the Israeli and Palestinian parts were played by actual Israeli and Palestinian actors and extras, which, according to Peter Kosminsky, he realised only too late wasn't the done thing in Israel.^note where both Israeli and Palestinian roles are apparently often filled by members of the same ethnicity, depending on the production As many of the actors were actual soldiers of the reserve or had personally experienced the kind of intolerance depicted on-screen, this lent many of the scenes a very real sense of anxiety and conflict, though as Kosminsky pointed out, it ultimately led to many of the actors bonding off-camera.

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