The Shop on Main Street (1965)

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The Shop on Main Street

ORIGINAL TITLE

Obchod na Korze (The Shop on Main Street)

YEAR

1965

RUNNING TIME

111 min.

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COUNTRY

(New) Visual section

DIRECTOR

Ján Kadár, Elmar Klos

SCREENWRITER

Ladilsav Grossman, Ján Kadár, Elmar Klos (Story: Ladislav Grosman)

COMPOSER

Zdenek Liska

CINEMATOGRAPHER

Vladimir Novotny

CAST

Josef Kroner, Frantisek Zvarik, Ida Kaminska, Hana Slivkova, Martin Holly, Helena Zvarikova, Martin Gregory, Adam Matejka

STUDIO/PRODUCER

Filmové Studio Barrandov

AWARDS

1965: Cannes Film Festival: Special Mention. Nominated for Golden Palm
1965: Oscar: Best Foreign Language Picture
1966: Nominated for Oscar: Best Actress (Ida Kaminska)
1966: Golden Globes: Nominated for Best Motion Picture Actress - Drama (Ida Kaminska)
1966: New York Film Critics Circle Awards: Best Foreign Language Film
1966: David di Donatello Awards: Golden Plate (Elmar Klos and Ján Kadár, for the production)

GENRE

Drama | II World War. Holocaust. Czechoslovak New Wave

SYNOPSIS/PLOT

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.

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