The Promise has a Guatemalan-American as a main actor.
Oscar Isaac ( born Óscar Isaac Hernández Estrada ; March 9 , 1979 ) is a Guatemalan-American actor and musician . He also played the lead role of Mikael Boghosian in The Promise ( 2016 ) , a film based on the Armenian Genocide . The Promise is a 2016 American historical drama film directed by Terry George and starring Oscar Isaac , Charlotte Le Bon and Christian Bale , set in the final years of the Ottoman Empire .