Broken Promise

2009· 135 min★ 6.7· Drama, History, War

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.

Cast: Samuel Spišák, Ina Gogálová, Ondřej Vetchý

Director: Jiří Chlumský