Armenian Diaspora communities have long been campaigning for recognition of the genocide by governments around the world.
Either there are some absolutely enormous cinemas that I’ve somehow never heard about, or IMDb users are voting politically on The Promise without having seen it.
The Terry George-directed film stars Christian Bale and Oscar Isaac and is set during the final days of the Ottoman Empire, leading up to the Armenian Genocide that killed 1.5 million.
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