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Focus gives Cronenberg 'Eastern Promises'

By Scott Rosenberg Feb 20, 2006, 0:32 GMT

Focus Features and BBC Films have signed-on David Cronenberg to direct "Eastern Promises." David Cronenberg photo courtesy www.filmfestivals.com

David Cronenberg photo courtesy www.filmfestivals.comThe movie will be based on a script by Steve Knight ('Dirty Pretty Things'). The movie will tell of a young nurse who investigates the identity of a mysterious Russian girl who dies in childbirth on Christmas Eve. She finds herself in trouble when she discovers that the dead woman was a prostitute ensnared by a sex-trafficking gang.

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