Jozef Kroner
Antonin "Tono" Brtko
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The Shop on Main Street (Czech/Slovak: Obchod na korze; in the UK The Shop on the High Street) is a 1965 Czechoslovakian film about the Aryanization program during World War II in the Slovak Republic. The film was written by Ladislav Grosman and directed by Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos.
The Shop on Main Street: Directed by Ján Kadár, Elmar Klos. With Ida Kaminska, Jozef Kroner, Frantisek Zvarík, Hana Slivková. A carpenter in the Fascist Slovak State is appointed "Aryan controller" of a Jewish widow's store.
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- Drama, War
- Ján Kadár, Elmar Klos
- 1966-01-24
The Shop on Main Street (1965) is a small but devastating picture that traces the effects of Fascism on a pair of innocent lives. This emotionally resonant work earned an Oscar for Best Foreign Film in 1965, and firmly placed its co-directors, Jan Kadar and Elmar Klos, in the upper echelon of 1960s filmmakers.
- Ján Kadár
- Jozef Króner
Watch The Shop on Main Street with a subscription on Max. In a small town in Nazi-occupied Slovakia during World War II, decent but timid carpenter Tono (Jozef Kroner) is named "Aryan...
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- Drama
- Jan Kadar, Elmar Klos
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Humor and tragedy fuse in this scathing exploration of one cowardly man’s complicity in the horrors of a totalitarian regime. Made near the height of Soviet oppression in Czechoslovakia, The Shop on Main Street features intense editing and camera work which won it the Academy Award™ for Best Foreign Film in 1965.
- Rozalie Lautmann
An inept Slovak peasant is torn between greed and guilt when the Nazi-backed bosses of his town appoint him "Aryan controller" of an old Jewish widow's button shop. Humor and tragedy fuse in this scathing exploration of one cowardly man's complicity in the horrors of a totalitarian regime.
The Shop on Main Street, in short, is an episode of high tragedy, a concentration of the world’s absurdities, in which good, ignorant, and indecisive people like Brtko enable “force” to get a firm hold.
