Broken Promise
2009 · ★ 6 · Dir. Jiří Chlumský
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.
- Released
- 2009-04-30
- Runtime
- 135 min
- Language
- SK
- Budget
- $2M
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Samuel Spišák
Martin
Ina Gogálová
Mrs. Friedmannová
Ondřej Vetchý
Mr. Friedmann
Marián Slovák
Rabbi
Vlado Černý
Doctor Fehér
Ivan Romančík
Shoemaker Feldman
Roman Luknár
Commander Vózar
Sergej Sanža
Cézar
Jan Monczka
stolársky majster v lágri
Peter Oszlík
Vilo
Ľubomír Bukový
Móric
Norman Šáro
Šmuel
Keywords
Based on novel or bookWorld war iiBased on memoir or autobiographyAnti semitismJewish familyJew persecutionHolocaust (shoah)SlovakiaCzechoslovakiaConcentration camp survivorJewish cultureNazi collaborationismHolocaust (shoah) survivorBased on true storyBratislava, slovakia
