Promise At Dawn

Filmed in Paris, Nice, and the Soviet Union, this is the touching story of a woman who devotes her entire life to her son, even ending her own career for his sake. Mercouri is a successful actress of the Soviet silent cinema who has a son illegitimately by a famous screen idol. She joins a troupe that ends its tour in Krakow, where Mercouri poses as a famous Parisian designer. When her true identity is exposed, she travels to Nice and works at a number of jobs in order to support her son. As a young adult during WW II, he serves in the French Air Force and later in the RAF, receiving the Cross of the Liberation from General Charles de Gaulle. He plans to give this ...