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Broken Promise

Broken Promise (2009)

2009-04-30 · 135 min · Rating 6.10/10 (15 votes)

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

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