{"id":12320,"date":"2017-04-03T09:52:13","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T13:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/?p=12320"},"modified":"2017-04-03T09:53:26","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T13:53:26","slug":"the-promise-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2017\/04\/the-promise-trailer.html","title":{"rendered":"Film Reveals the Last Days of the Ottoman Empire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"&quot;The Promise&quot; Official Trailer 1 (2016)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Pk4TivbNVUM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Promise&#8221; is a new\u00a0film set during the last days of the Ottoman Empire that stars Oscar Isaac as Michael Boghosian, a medical student who has come to the vibrant city of Constantinople in 1914, determined to bring modern medicine back his ancestral village. 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