Broken Promise

Broken Promise
2009
★★★☆☆ 6.2/10
⏱️ 135 min
📅 Released
🌐 SK
DramaHistoryWar
Slovakia, on the eve of the outbreak of World War II. The family of the young Jewish Martin Friedmann gathers to celebrate his bar mitzvah and make a solemn promise that they will all meet again a year later around the same table; but the storms of war and anti-Semitic fanaticism will lead each of them down very different paths.

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Cast

Samuel Spišák
Samuel Spišák
Martin
Ina Gogálová
Ina Gogálová
Mrs. Friedmannová
Ondřej Vetchý
Ondřej Vetchý
Mr. Friedmann
Marián Slovák
Marián Slovák
Rabbi
Vlado Černý
Vlado Černý
Doctor Fehér
Ivan Romančík
Ivan Romančík
Shoemaker Feldman

Crew

Director
Jiří Chlumský
Writer
Jan Novák
Producer
Iveta Černá Ivanová, Peter Hlava

Production

Genta Film, Studio 727, JPEF, Česká televize, Slovenská televízia, SPI International

Keywords

based on novel or bookholocaust (shoah)world war iijew persecutionczechoslovakiabratislava, slovakiabased on true storyantisemitismholocaust (shoah) survivorbased on memoir or autobiography