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One of the strongest scenes in this movie is when Martin is hiding in a monastery where the staff was taking care of Jewish patients at varying degrees of dementia, and the villagers organize a pogrom to kill the Jewish patients.
Oct 6, 2009 · Sheer luck and special skills help a Jewish Slovak adolescent survive the WWII years in Holocaust drama “Broken Promise,” from Czech helmer Jiri Chlumsky.
The true story of Jewish boy, and talented soccer player, Martin, who has to make risky lifetime decisions in order to survive in WWII when he sees his family is taken to Poland one by one. The...
Apr 30, 2009 · The true story of Jewish boy, and talented soccer player, Martin, who has to make risky lifetime decisions in order to survive in World War II when he sees his family is taken to Poland one by one. Director. Jirí Chlumský. Writers. Martin Friedmann-Petrásek. Jan Novák. Stars. Samuel Spisák. Ondrej Vetchý. Vladimir Cerny.
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- Biography, Drama, Family
- Jirí Chlumský
- 2009-04-30
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.
- Jiří Chlumský
- Genta Film
Broken Promise is a superb offering from the expanding universe of Slovak film production. Based on the true story of teenager Martin Friedman’s escape from deportation—several times between 1938 and 1945—the film lays bare choices that people made as Hitler’s power fomented hatred with impunity.
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Broken Promise featuring Samuel Spišák and Vica Kerekes is streaming with subscription on Prime Video, free on Tubi, free on Freevee (Via Prime Video), and 3 others. It's a biography and drama movie with a better than average IMDb audience rating of 6.7 (473 votes).