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* OffScreenKarma: We sadly don't see it onscreen but it's highly implied [[spoiler: Seymon was arrested once the police matched his DNA with Christine's after Nikolai and Anna convinced Kirill not to kill her. There's a certain level of irony in that Seymon was brought down by his son whom he constantly abused and Nikolai who he tried to have murdered.]]
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* HateSink: Once his true nature is revealed [[spoiler: Seymon becomes this, being a vile, arrogant and abusive prick who feels no remorse about raping a 14 year old and then ordering his son to murder his baby sister]].
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* AffablyEvil: Nikolai is a ruthless enforcer but he's also a genuinely affable and charming person who seems to genuinely care about Anna, and the sanest person in the gang. [[spoiler: Turns out he's actually not a mobster but a secret agent, making this a subverted trope]].
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''Eastern Promises'' is a 2007 crime thriller film directed by Creator/DavidCronenberg, starring Creator/NaomiWatts, Creator/ViggoMortensen, Creator/VincentCassel, and Armin Mueller-Stahl.
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''Eastern Promises'' is a 2007 crime thriller film directed by Creator/DavidCronenberg, Creator/DavidCronenberg (who had previously directed ''Film/AHistoryOfViolence''), starring Creator/NaomiWatts, Creator/ViggoMortensen, Creator/VincentCassel, and Armin Mueller-Stahl.
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->'''Anna''': So you've read the diary. How can you keep doing what you're doing?
->'''Nikolai''': I'm just the driver.
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'''Nikolai:''' I'm just the driver.
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* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Aside from the mobster's more crude values, Anna's uncle Stepan is very casually racist and otherwise insensitive.
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* FormerRegimePersonnel: None of the mobsters, as working for the government is against the Vor code. Stepan used to work for the KGB, [[MilesGloriosus as a clerk]].
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* MilesGloriosus: Stepan worked for the KGB. Never as an agent, which Nikolai [[CanAlwaysSpotACop seems to sus out of him]].
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* TattooedCrook: The Russian criminal tattoo practise is featured heavily. The Russian detective explains some of the code when investigating Sokya's body at the beach, and the meaning of tatoos is discussed. When Nikolai gets promoted to captain, he is given compass star tattoos on his knees and chest. The [[SignatureScene famous]] BathHouseBrawl scene takes place at a Turkish bath ostensibly because the older Gangster wanted for both of them to show their tattoos, but also to leave Nikolai unarmed and easy to identify from [[ChekhovsGun the very same tattoos]], which were also meant to convince the Chechens Nikolai was actually Kirill.
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* TattooedCrook: The Russian criminal tattoo practise is featured heavily. The Russian detective explains some of the code when investigating Sokya's body at the beach, and the meaning of tatoos is discussed. When Nikolai gets promoted to captain, he is given compass star tattoos on his knees and chest. The [[SignatureScene famous]] BathHouseBrawl BathhouseBlitz scene takes place at a Turkish bath ostensibly because the older Gangster wanted for both of them to show their tattoos, but also to leave Nikolai unarmed and easy to identify from [[ChekhovsGun the very same tattoos]], which were also meant to convince the Chechens Nikolai was actually Kirill.
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* TattooedCrook: Operates as a ChekhovsGun for Nikolai. It says something that while taking a break from filming by kicking back at a bar, Creator/ViggoMortensen accidentally scared several Russian immigrants into thinking he really was a member of the ''vory v zakone''.
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* TattooedCrook: Operates as The Russian criminal tattoo practise is featured heavily. The Russian detective explains some of the code when investigating Sokya's body at the beach, and the meaning of tatoos is discussed. When Nikolai gets promoted to captain, he is given compass star tattoos on his knees and chest. The [[SignatureScene famous]] BathHouseBrawl scene takes place at a ChekhovsGun Turkish bath ostensibly because the older Gangster wanted for Nikolai. It says something that while both of them to show their tattoos, but also to leave Nikolai unarmed and easy to identify from [[ChekhovsGun the very same tattoos]], which were also meant to convince the Chechens Nikolai was actually Kirill.
** Nikolai's Russian language tattoos are never translated, but include some BilingualBonus jokes.
** While taking a break from filming by kicking back at a bar, Creator/ViggoMortensen accidentally scared several Russian immigrants into thinking he really was a member of the ''vory vzakone''.zakone'' because he hadn't washed the tattoos off.
** Nikolai's Russian language tattoos are never translated, but include some BilingualBonus jokes.
** While taking a break from filming by kicking back at a bar, Creator/ViggoMortensen accidentally scared several Russian immigrants into thinking he really was a member of the ''vory v
