The Shop on Main Street
1965 · Movie · 121 min. · Czechoslovakia
Tono Briko (Josef Kroner) is a slothful Czechslovakian carpenter. The time is World War II, and the occupying Nazis are nationalizing all Jewish-owned businesses. To please his ambitious family, Tono takes the job of "Aryan comptroller" for a rundown button shop managed by an elderly Jewish woman (Ida Kaminska). He realizes that his new job won't bring much in the way of money; the old woman, deaf as a post, realizes nothing, not even that a war is on. The shopkeeper's Jewish friends, knowing that the woman will be carted off for extermination if she doesn't have an Aryan coworker, offer to pay Tono if he'll stay on as her assistant. 1965 Oscar winner for Best Foreign Film.
Direction Ján Kadár · Elmar Klos
Cast Josef Kroner · Frantisek Zvarik · Ida Kaminska · Hana Slivkova · Martin Hollý · Helena Zvarikova · Martin Gregory · Adam Matejka
Soundtrack Zdenek Liska
Screenplay Ladilsav Grossman · Ján Kadár · Elmar Klos
Cinematography Vladimir Novotny
Original title Obchod na Korze (The Shop on Main Street)
Also known as The Shop on High Street
7.8
1K votes (FilmAffinity)
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