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* BellyDancer: One is featured in the club the protagonists visit at the start of the movie. Ana also dances alongside her and [[{{Fanservice}} does it pretty well]].



* FanserviceExtra: The Turkish BellyDancer featured in the club the protagonists visit that even briefly dances alongside Ana.

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* FanserviceExtra: The Turkish BellyDancer SultryBellyDancer featured in the club the protagonists visit that even briefly dances alongside Ana.
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Not to be confused with the [[Series/ThePromise2011 2011 miniseries of the same name]].

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Not to be confused with the [[Series/ThePromise2011 2011 miniseries of the same name]]. Or the [[Film/ThePromise2005 2005 Hong Kong film]].
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* ANaziByAnyOtherName: Driven home early on in the film where a group of German officials, visiting their allies in the Ottoman Empire, sing "Deutschland Uber Alles" (a song that although closely associated with the Nazis today had been Germany's national anthem since the 1800's), thus reminding the viewer that Germany was paying marked attention to the Armenian genocide and would use many of the same techniques in the Holocaust less than 30 years later. Hitler in fact even cited it as evidence that they could get away with murdering all Jews in Europe, since he said "who remembers the Armenians?"

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* ANaziByAnyOtherName: Driven home early on in the film where a group of German officials, visiting their allies in the Ottoman Empire, sing "Deutschland Uber Alles" "Deutschlandlied" (a song that although closely associated with the Nazis today had been Germany's national anthem since the 1800's), thus reminding the viewer that Germany was paying marked attention to the Armenian genocide and would use many of the same techniques in the Holocaust less than 30 years later. Hitler in fact even cited it as evidence that they could get away with murdering all Jews in Europe, since he said "who remembers the Armenians?"

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* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Completely defied and averted with the Turks as many are shown to not all be on board with the Armenian genocide and do what they can to stop it. Three notable examples include:
** Mustafa, a driver who helps escort the orphans out to Musa Dagh and stays with the Armenians.
** A deputy governor appearing before the American Protestant Mission in Turkey, risking his life to inform them that an evacuation must start.
** Emre: the son of a Turkish aristocrat who [[spoiler: betrays his father and government to report on Chris being imprisoned and nearly executed to Henry Morgenthau, the American ambassador to the Ottomans. This gets Emre shot for treason, but his actions allow Chris to inform the French navy that a large number of Armenians are trapped and need aid.]]


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* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: Many of the Turks are shown to not all be on board with the Armenian genocide and do what they can to stop it. Three notable examples include:
** Mustafa, a driver who helps escort the orphans out to Musa Dagh and stays with the Armenians.
** A deputy governor appearing before the American Protestant Mission in Turkey, risking his life to inform them that an evacuation must start.
** Emre: the son of a Turkish aristocrat who [[spoiler: betrays his father and government to report on Chris being imprisoned and nearly executed to Henry Morgenthau, the American ambassador to the Ottomans. This gets Emre shot for treason, but his actions allow Chris to inform the French navy that a large number of Armenians are trapped and need aid.]]
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The Promise is about a love triangle that develops between Armenian medical student Mikael (Isaac), an American journalist based in Paris named Chris (Bale) and an Armenian-born woman raised in France, Ana (Le Bon), during the final years of the Ottoman Empire, and during the Armenian Genocide. It was financed by the late Kirk Kerkorian, and is the first major Hollywood film to deal with the topic of the Armenian genocide.

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The Promise is about a love triangle that develops between Armenian medical student Mikael (Isaac), an American journalist based in Paris named Chris (Bale) and an Armenian-born woman raised in France, Ana (Le Bon), during the final years of the Ottoman Empire, and during the UsefulNotes/{{the Armenian Genocide.Genocide}}. It was financed by the late Kirk Kerkorian, and is the first major Hollywood film to deal with the topic of the Armenian genocide.

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