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.
Fun facts
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Nominations
Nominated for the International Submission to the Academy Awards (2010)
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Box office
Made on a $1.99M budget
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Based on
Based on a true story
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Music
Music by Michal Novinski
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Cinematography
Cinematography by Ján Ďuriš
Details
- Director
- Writers
- Jan NovákScreenplay
- Martin Friedmann-PetrásekBook
- Original title
- Nedodržaný sľub
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- April 30, 2009
- Original language
- Slovak
- Budget
- $2M
- Countries
- Czech Republic, Slovakia, United States of America
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In the United States
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Cast
Samuel SpišákMartin
Ina GogálováMrs. Friedmannová
Ondřej VetchýMr. Friedmann
Marián SlovákRabbi
Vlado ČernýDoctor Fehér
Ivan RomančíkShoemaker Feldman
Roman LuknárCommander Vózar
Peter OszlíkVilo
Sergej SanžaCézar- Juraj SadílekFred Mahler
Ivan KrivosudskýOld Martin (voice)
Ľubomír BukovýMóric
Norman ŠároŠmuel
Daniel FischerAlex
Dávid HartlDežo
Jakub SpišákHerman
Zuzana PorubjakováRáchel- Peter KočanEmanuel
Ľudmila SwanováFeldmanová
Dušan KaprálikGoldsmith Fischer
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