Average Rating: 8.9/10
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Release Date: Jan 24, 1966 Wide
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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 Wide
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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
"The Shop on Main Street" defied my expectations in two significant ways: The direction and cinematography were much more elegant than I imagined, and I was surprised at how much of this Nazi-themed film amounts to a sweet, gentle comedy. It's more like one of those small-town character studies from the U.K. The lead
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