Broken Promise

Name: Broken Promise
Director: Jiří Chlumský
Genre: War, History, Drama
Released: 2009

Rating

6.1

Rating

6.1

The Film

Broken Promise

The Story

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.

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

Budget

$1,990,111

Runtime

135 min

Released Apr 2009

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