EASTERN PROMISES' Viggo Mortensen stars in this World-War-II-era drama as a professor who is reluctant to join the Nazi party. As anti-Semitic feelings grow, he is forced to choose between his career and a Jewish friend (Jason Isaacs, THE PATRIOT). Jodie Whittaker, who held her own against Peter O'Toole in VENUS, plays Mortensen's character's wife.