Das Versprechen (1996)

• 80%
• 1996
• Drama
• Jérémie Renier
• Olivier Gourmet
• Assita Ouedraogo

Igor--a 15-year-old apprentice mechanic--spends his off hours at the beck and call of his father. Igor's father Roger, is a low-life involved with smuggling undocumented immigrants into Belgium, and acts as their slumlord, housing them in barely livable bedingungen, and paying them menial wages to work construction on his building (among other scams). When the building inspector land a surprise visit and Amidou falls off a scaffold in his hurry to hide things start to entwirren, particularly when Igor makes a promise to the injured Amidou that ultimately auslagen the different values of Igor and Roger, and of Amidou's wife, Assita.