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The Shop on Main Street

Obchod na Korze (The Shop on Main Street)

1965

Ján Kadár, Elmar Klos

Josef Kroner, Frantisek Zvarik, Ida Kaminska, Hana Slivkova ...

7.8

1,722

Drama 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 ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Bosley Crowther The New York Times	"One of the most arresting and devastating pictures I've seen from Europe or anywhere else in several years"
		Wally Hammond Time Out	"Kadar and Klos deal with the horror of the Holocaust by detailing the moral plight of an Everyman"
		Eddie Cockrell Variety	"Its condemnation of indifference in the face of oppression resonates with contempo relevance (...) Jan Kadar and Elmar Klos pungently recreate Slovak village life"
		IndieWire	"A true gem in its own right (...) [A] timeless masterwork (...) The drama is as relevant today as it was half a century ago."

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