Ben Mankiewicz Intro - La Promesse (1996)

La Promesse (1996) -- (Movie Clip) My Wife, My Child

The event from which the title arises, Igor (Jeremie Renier) finds labor inspectors are arriving at the site where he and his uncle (Olivier Gourmet) employ their exploited foreign workers, Rasmane Ouedraogo as the unfortunate Hamidou, in La Promesse, 1996, from Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne.

La Promesse (1996) -- (Movie Clip) There Are Lots Of Thieves

We meet Igor (Jeremie Renier), evidently at work in industrial Seraing, Belgium, his boss (Frederique Bodson) then briefly his uncle Roger (Olivier Gourmet), whom we’ll learn is a crook, opening La Promesse, 1996, the celebrated feature debut from brothers Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne.

La Promesse (1996) -- (Movie Clip) That Wasn't Our Agreement

Still in the opening segment of the film, it’s become clear that Roger (Olivier Gourmet) and nephew Igor (Jeremie Renier) make a living smuggling unauthorized immigrants into Belgium, and they’re not scrupulous, Rasmane Ouedraogo as Hamidou, in La Promesse, 1996, from Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne.