BARDEJOV

Name: BARDEJOV
Item: BARDEJOV
Author: Lillie Jaenchen

"Saving the Children from National Socialist Evil"

Content: +1 Moderately questionable elements. (Discernment required for young children.)

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Language
Violence
Sex
Nudity

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What You Need To Know:

BARDEJOV is a Holocaust drama, available on Amazon and set in early 1942 in Bardejov, Slovakia. The Slovakian government is increasingly putting restrictions on the Jewish community in Slovakia, including Jews in Bardejov. They’re doing it to appease Hitler’s war-mongering National Socialist tyranny in Germany, in hopes of avoiding a German invasion. The army officials, including the ones in Bardejov, enjoy harassing the Jews, however. The leader of the local Jewish Council, Mr. Lowy, played by Robert Davi, tries to soften the blows to his fellow Jews. However, when the Slovakian government orders the local army to round up 300 unmarried Jewish girls to make them work in a shoe factory far away, Mr. Lowy learns there is no shoe factory. The Jews in Bardejov need a plan to rescue their children.

BARDEJOV is an absorbing, emotional drama, with strong jeopardy and a superb performance by Robert Davi as leader of the Jewish Council. The movie has a strong moral worldview with an anti-totalitarian view, told from a Jewish, biblical perspective. BARDEJOV has some light foul language and light depicted violence.

Content:

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Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements:

Strong moral, anti-fascist worldview from a Jewish, biblical perspective with many positive references to God and trusting God in a story set in 1942 in Slovakia in Eastern Europe, with references to the Feast of Purim and the Book of Esther in the Bible where Esther staves off a genocidal plan in Persia against the Hebrews living there, and Jews in the movie say they should fast like the Jews in the Book of Esther, and a Christian soldier helping the Jewish people in his city says, “We are all children of God,” and should treat other people better because of this;

Foul Language:

Two “h” words, one “d” word, five light profanities (OMG, OG and “for God’s sake”);

Violence:

An evil army captain is beaten up after he fails at his job, fascist soldiers make threats against Jews, angry Jewish leader starts to choke the evil captain at one point, and when he lets go the captain pulls a gun on him, but the man starts to laugh, and Hitler’s plan to exterminate European Jews at death camps during World War II is revealed in a Slovakian town;

Sex:

No sex;

Nudity:

No nudity;

Alcohol Use:

Alcohol use and drunkenness by local fascist soldiers in Slovakia in 1942;

Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse:

Some smoking but no drugs; and,

Miscellaneous Immorality:

Lying and subterfuge, but to defeat an increasingly totalitarian, antisemitic state government serving Hitler’s Germany and its genocide against the Jews so that Germany doesn’t invade it.

More Detail:

BARDEJOV is a Holocaust drama, available on Amazon. It is set in early 1942 in Bardejov, Slovakia. The Slovakian government is increasingly putting restrictions on the Jewish community in Slovakia, including Jews in Bardejov. For instance, they’ve put Non-Jews in charge of Jewish businesses, like the local winery. They’re doing it to appease Hitler’s war-mongering National Socialist tyranny in Germany, in hopes of avoiding a German invasion. The army officials, including the ones in Bardejov, seem to relish harassing the Jews, however.

The leader of the local Jewish Council, Refuel Lowy, played by Robert Davi, tries to soften the blows to his fellow Jews and plan for the future. However, when the Slovakian government orders the local army to round up 300 unmarried Jewish girls to make them work in a shoe factory far away, Mr. Lowy learns there is no shoe factory. The Jews in Bardejov need a plan to rescue their children.

BARDEJOV is an absorbing, emotional drama, with strong jeopardy and a superb performance by Robert Davi as leader of the Jewish Council. The movie has a strong moral worldview with an anti-totalitarian view, told from a Jewish, biblical perspective. There is some light foul language and light depicted violence. BARDEJOV is a good historical drama to see.

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