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Broken Promise (2009)

Broken Promise (2009)

Drama History War
Release Date: 2009, April 30
Directors: Jiří Chlumský
Countries: Czech Republic, Slovakia, United States of America
Production: Genta Film, Studio 727, JPEF, Česká televize, Slovenská televízia, SPI International
Cast: Pavel Kříž, Ľubomír Bukový, Ľubomír Paulovič, Roman Luknár, Vica Kerekes, Ondřej Vetchý, Ivan Romančík, Lukáš Latinák, Sergej Sanža, Ľudmila Swanová, Ady Hajdu, Jakub Spišák

Overview:

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.

Keywords:

based on novel or book based on true story world war ii holocaust (shoah) jew persecution antisemitism jewish family based on memoir or autobiography holocaust (shoah) survivor jewish culture concentration camp survivor czechoslovakia bratislava, slovakia slovakia nazi collaborationism