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IF THE BNP had a camera crew, it could not have produced a more revolting depiction of immigrant life in London than David Cronenberg’s film Eastern Promises. It starts as it means to go on with a Kurdish barber forcing his son to cut a customer’s throat. A pregnant Russian child prostitute then dies having a Caesarean. Anna, a naive midwife at the hospital, resolves to find the newborn child’s father. The trail leads to a Russian restaurant. The apparently avuncular proprietor does not only bring exotic foods to grateful Londoners, he is also a people trafficker, who holds girls in sex slavery—and has a psychopath for a son, for good measure.