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Claire Foy (Actor), Christian Cooke (Actor), Peter Kosminsky (Director) Rated: Suitable for 15 years and over Format: DVD
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  • Actors: Claire Foy, Christian Cooke, Yvonne Catterfeld
  • Directors: Peter Kosminsky
  • Format: PAL
  • Language: English
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Channel 4 DVD
  • DVD Release Date: 28 Feb. 2011
  • Run Time: 354 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (178 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B004G5YVC8
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 10,141 in DVD & Blu-ray (See Top 100 in DVD & Blu-ray)

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Claire Foy (Little Dorrit) and Christian Cooke (Cemetery Junction) lead an international cast, including Itay Tiran (Lebanon), Haaz Sleiman (The Visitor), Ali Sulaiman (Paradise Now) and Perdita Weeks (Lost in Austen), in Peter Kosminsky's new four-part drama serial.

Just as 18-year-old Londoner Erin (Foy) sets off to spend summer in Israel with her best friend, Eliza (Weeks), she unearths an old diary belonging to her seriously ill grandfather, Len (Cooke). Intrigued by the life of this old man she barely knows, she takes the diary with her, and is stunned to learn of his part in the post-WWII British peace-keeping force in what was then Palestine.

Left to her own devices when Eliza begins National Service in the Israeli army, Erin witnesses the complexities of life--for both Jews and Arabs--in this troubled land. And as Len's story comes to life from the pages of the diary, Erin discovers the disturbing truths about his time in Palestine and the atrocities he witnessed in the 1940s.

Retracing Len's steps in modern-day Israel, Erin sets out on a heart-breaking journey in an effort to understand and fulfil a promise made by her grandfather over 60 years ago.

DVD Extras
  • Filming in Israel 1940s and 2005
  • Audio commentary with director Peter Kosminsky and producer Hal Vogel (Episode one and deleted scenes)
  • Behind the scenes featurettes

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5.0 out of 5 starsAt last a brave attempt to deconstruct a myth
By John Garrett on 12 Aug. 2014
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How marvellous to see a programme that casts aside the myths of Israel's foundation ('a land without people for a people without land', 'David vs Goliath', etc.) to show its violent origins in the dispossession of the indigenous population under the guns and bombs of Jewish terrorist groups (the Irgun is specifically mentioned, but there were others - Haganah, Lehi, the Stern Gang, etc.). The developing story shows how this violence continues to this day, and how a people who were dehumanised themselves by the Nazis are now able to commit atrocities against the 'animal' Palestinians - house demolitions, civilian massacres, ethnic cleansing, etc. - by incarnating the same attitude.

The plot, replete with Dickensian coincidence, creaks a little; but the excellent acting of Claire Foy and Christian Cooke as ingenu(e)s in a political cauldron, carries it convincingly. Sadly, The Promise is unlikely to be viewed at the White House or 10 Downing Street, and the present lip-service these power-points pay to a putative 'two-state solution' that Israel's relentless colonisation of, and expulsion of Palestinians from, the Occupied Territories has long since rendered unviable will continue.
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5.0 out of 5 starsThe Promise
By Tamara on 14 May 2012
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I have not yet had the time to see the dvd but ever since seeing The Promise on tv I promised myself that I would have to own this. It is a wonderful story. Very interesting, exciting and amazing but also very thought provoking taking the unknowing of us into a life that most could not imagine.
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5.0 out of 5 starsA fantastic drama, with alot of unknown history.
By D. Evans on 22 April 2011
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I saw the series on TV and bought this DVD as a gift for my mother. It's a thoroughly exciting drama steeped with history, intrigue and romance. It gives an insight into the start of modern Israel post WW2 and the relationship of todays peoples in the country today.
Well worth a watch.
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5.0 out of 5 starsExcellent work
By Mel on 27 July 2011
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Moving, intelligent, very well researched drama. Cleverly weaves through 2 complex stories with deft timing and gripping event sequences. Great unbiased work by a Jewish director, shedding light on a conflict that can only be understood in the context of the detail of the historical events. Highly recommended viewing.
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5.0 out of 5 starsA MASTERPIECE
By Tom Suarez on 28 April 2011
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Brilliant, superbly acted, a very important film.
My quibbles pale in comparison to the film's virtues, but they are:
1. It is not explained how the main character and her Palestinian friend got into Gaza -- the impression is that they go through a tunnel from Israel, but of course there are no tunnels between Israel and Gaza. They obviously went to Egypt in order to get through a tunnel to the Gaza Strip, but this is not explained.
2. The reality of the situation is Gaza is quite understated -- that section could have been stronger.
3. Some reference to pre-1945 Zionist terrorism would have placed the situation at the end of the Mandate in better context. The film's starting point (the liberation of the Nazi death camps) might lead some viewers to think that such terrorism in Palestine only began after the Second World War.
4. One other little glitch is when the Palestinian man, standing on a rooftop in Abu Dis, refers to Palestine lying on one side of the Wall, Israel on the other, when of course both sides there are Abu Dis. The Wall does not follow the Green Line there.
Alas I see no plans -- yet -- for the film to be shown in the US, the place where it most needs to be disseminated.
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5.0 out of 5 starsThe Promise
By Tuscany on 31 Mar. 2011
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The Promise lived up to its name having a double meaning the promise that God made to his people. It showed the sorrow that the Arabs went through being constantly displaced as their homes were being taken over by the jews. Overall because the way the story was written it did favour the Arabs. One couldn't help but be moved by both sides. The abominations the Jews endure during the second world war will never be forgotten. I think what was particularly well done with this story is that it showed what the Arabs went through also. It is a very poignant story and one that will have you thinking for a long time to come.
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4.0 out of 5 starsThe Promise
By Trebor on 18 May 2011
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Thoroughly enjoyed the serialiason on the TV so bought this DVD as a present for someone else.
It does cover the original period when this conflict started and does give an understanding of the injustice done to the original Palestinian inhabitants at their land being taken over by people they initially welcomed
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5.0 out of 5 starsan epic
By gilbert on 31 Oct. 2012
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The Promise [DVD]The Promise is two stories in one. In 2005 an 18-year-old Londoner, Erin, agrees to accompany her best friend, Eliza, to Israel, where she has to do her National Service. Eliza's parents live there in some luxury, and so far as Erin's concerned, it's just a great holiday. For a couple of months, she'll give Eliza moral support while she completes her basic training. Eliza will only be home at weekends, so the rest of the time Erin will chill out by the family swimming pool. When we first see her, she seems quite a moody and superficial girl - her main interests appear to be shopping and clubbing - and she certainly doesn't have a political brain cell in her head.
The other story starts in 1945 and is about Erin's grandfather Len, a sergeant in the Parachute Regiment. He has come through the Second World War where his last task was to liberate Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. The experience is worse than anything he has witnessed in the war; not only are there piles of emaciated bodies, but people are still dying in large numbers because they are too weak to be saved. As a career soldier, he is then posted to Palestine, occupied by the British at that time, where he is shocked to find that he has to intern Jewish holocaust survivors, who are flooding into the country, behind wire fences. The authorities fear that allowing unrestricted immigration will spark an Arab revolt.
Erin hardly knows her grandfather, who is in hospital with a stroke, but she finds a diary of his from the time and takes it with her to Israel.Read more ›
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