A Promise

About A Promise

A romantic drama set in Germany just before WWI and centered on a married woman who falls in love with her husband's teacher. Separated by the war, they pledge their devotion to one another.

A Promise (2013) is a romance film directed by Patrice Leconte. Its themes are extramarital affair, world war i, love affair, and germany.

Rebecca Hall stars as Lotte Hoffmeister, Alan Rickman as Karl Hoffmeister, Richard Madden as Friedrich Zeitz, and Toby Murray as Otto Hoffmeister. Released in September 2013, it runs 94 minutes.

The screenplay is by Jérôme Tonnerre and Patrice Leconte. It comes from Cofinova 6, Fidélité Films, and OCS. In the United States it streams on AMC+, AMC+ Amazon Channel, and AMC Plus Apple TV channel.

The Grand Budapest Hotel, American Beauty, and The Disaster Artist make useful companions to A Promise, all filed under mentor protégé relationship and wartime. TMDB voters put it at 5.7 out of 10 across 143 votes and it carries a R rating.