• Film ID:
  • 5927
  • Availability:
  • VHS - Adv. Booking Required
  • Film cert:
  • Running time:
  • VHS=125 min.
  • Nationality(ies):
  • Czech Republic.
  • Primary Language(s):
  • Czech.
THE SHOP ON MAIN STREET (1965)
Cast
Jozef Kroner. Ida Kaminska. Hana Slivkova.
Director(s)
Jan Kadar.
Categories
Comedy. Classics. Art House. Drama. Recommended. Oscar (Best Foreign Language).
Review
A key film from the Czech New Wave cinema of the mid-'60s. In Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, a lowly carpenter becomes the 'Aryan comptroller' of a stone-deaf old Jewish lady's shop and is caught twixt self-interest and affection for her. An Oscar winning well acted and crafted political tragedy.
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