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A History of Violence
Why this pick
Cronenberg again combines controlled, wintry menace with sudden brutality, following an ordinary family man as a buried criminal world presses into his domestic life.
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MOVIE2007 1h 41m GBR
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
A Russian teenager living in London who dies during childbirth leaves clues to a midwife in her journal that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent Russian mob family.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Naomi Watts
Anna Ivanova Khitrova
Viggo Mortensen
Nikolai Luzhin
Vincent Cassel
Kirill
Sinéad Cusack
Helen
Donald Sumpter
Yuri
Aleksander Mikic
Soyka
David Papava
Chechen
Tamer Hassan
Chechen