The film "Broken Promise" (2009) by Czech director Jiri Chlumsky won the main award for the best feature film at the Jewish Film Festival in Los Angeles, the SPI International company told reporters on Thursday.

"Broken Promise" had a world premiere in Los Angeles on April 25. It was produced by Slovakia, the Czech Republic and the United States.

The film is made after an autobiographic book by 83-year-old Martin Petrasek, who recollects his childhood and youth in the Slovak wartime state.

Petrasek, still named Friedmann in the 1930s, only luckily escaped deportation to a concentration camp as a Jewish boy and then fought the Nazis along with Soviet partisans.

The writer Petrasek, who has been living in the United States since 1959, was very surprised to see the film expressed the feelings he tried to express in his book.

(Xinhua News Agency May 15, 2009)