Broken Promise

SlovAKIA, CZECH REPUBLIC, USA director: Jiří Chlumský 2008 / 129 min. / SLOVAK VERSION WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES cast: Samuel Spišák, Ondřej Vetchý, Ľuba Paulovič, Marián Slovák, Ivan Romančík

Martin Friedmann is a Jewish boy born in the year of 1926 in Banovce nad Bebravou in western Slovakia. His story wouldn’t be at all extraordinary if his very special talent for football, together with extreme luck, didn’t help him to escape deportation to the concentration camp.
Today, he lives in L.A., USA under the name Martin Petrášek and claims his Slovak roots. Why is he using an alias, where does his name come from, and why is he still using it after all this years? In Broken Promise, based on a real story, you will find much more than all the answers.