Obchod na Korze (The Shop On Main Street) (A Shop on the High Street) (1965)
Average Rating: 8.9/10
Reviews Counted: 12
Fresh: 12 | Rotten: 0
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Release Date: Jan 24, 1966 Limited
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The 1965 Oscar winner for Best Foreign Film, The Shop on Main Street (Obch o Na Korze) stars Josef Kroner as Tono Briko, a slothful Slovakian 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,
Jan 24, 1966 Limited
Sep 18, 2001
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Josef Kroner
Tono Brtko -
Frantisek Zvarík
Marcus Kolkocky -
Ida Kaminska
Rosalie Lautmann -
Hana Slivková
Evelina Brtko -
Martin Hollý
Imro Kuchar -
Helena Zvaríková
Rose Kolkocka -
Martin Gregory
Katz -
Mikulas Ladizinsky
Marian Peter -
Adam Matejka
Piti Baci -
Gita Misurova
Andoricova -
Frantisek Papp
Andoric -
Eugen Senaj
Blau -
Tibor Vadas
Tobacconist -
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All Critics (17) | Top Critics (4) | Fresh (13) | Rotten (2) | DVD (10)
One of the more memorable films about the Holocaust.
The noted Polish actress Ida Kaminska was deservedly nominated for an Oscar for this serio-comic fable, set in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia.
Tense and emotionally brutal.
Mesmerizing and heart-breaking...
suggests the sheer impossibility of ever knowing the Holocaust while simultaneously reassuring us that we can always know individual human beings
Audience Reviews for Obchod na Korze (The Shop On Main Street) (A Shop on the High Street)
The exposition is overlong (this movie did not need to be over two hours), and the plot's shift toward a darker tone occurs strangely late -- only within the last 45 minutes or so. The ending was not as emotionally powerful as it could have been, and two fantasy sequences seemed unnecessary and out of place. Still, this Czech classic is well worth seeing.
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Foreign Titles
- Obchod Na Korze - Das Geschäft in der Hauptstrasse (DE)
- Obchod na korze (Shop On The High Street, The) (UK)
