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The Shop on Main Street

Title
The Shop on Main Street [videorecording] / Barrandov Film Studio for Ceskoslovenský Film.
Publication
Los Angeles : The Voyager Company, 1965.

Details

Additional Authors
  • Kadar, Jan.
  • Klos, Elmar.
Description
1 videocassette (128 min.) : sd., b&w.; 1/2 in.
Summary
This film, set in a small Slovakian town, chronicles the relationship of an elderly, hard-of-hearing Jewish woman who owns a button shop, and the amiable but weak carpenter appointed by the Nazis as her Aryan controller. The first Czechoslavakian feature to win an Academy Award, this film achieves balance between comedy and tragedy, between a specific story and the universal theme of human responsibility.
Subject
  • Foreign films
  • Motion pictures > Czechoslovakia
  • Jews > Fiction
  • World War, 1939-1945 > Fiction
  • Foreign films > Czechoslovakia
  • Czechoslovakia > Fiction
Genre/Form
Feature films.
Note
  • In Czech with English subtitles.
  • Based on a story by Ladislau Grossman.
Credits (note)
  • Directors, writers, Ján Kadár, Elmar Klos; photography, Vladimir Novotny; music, Zdenek Liska.
Performer (note)
  • Ida Kaminska, Josef Kroner.
Title
The Shop on Main Street [videorecording] / Barrandov Film Studio for Ceskoslovenský Film.
Imprint
Los Angeles : The Voyager Company, 1965.
Credits
Directors, writers, Ján Kadár, Elmar Klos; photography, Vladimir Novotny; music, Zdenek Liska.
Cast
Ida Kaminska, Josef Kroner.
Added Author
Kadar, Jan.
Klos, Elmar.
Branch Call Number
VTH 816 S
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