THE SHOP ON MAIN STREET (OBCHOD NA KORZE) BY JAN KADAR AND ELMAR KLOS

In this film, Tony Brtko a small carpenter is assigned as the Aryanizator of a small shop by his fascist brother -in - law Mark Kolkotsky in a small town in Czechoslovakia. Promise of fortune has seduced his greedy wife. Tony discovers that the store is owned by the deaf and senile widow named Rozalie Lautmann who is at her seventies. She is bankrupted is financially supported by the Jewish community who promises an amount to him to help her. Tony befriends Ms, Lautmann and helps her in the store. He repairs her furniture and eventually lures his wife with the remuneration. When the Jews are expelled from the small town by the fascist, Tony promises the old lady to help her.

Key casts are Josef Kroner as Tono Brkto, Ida Kaminska as Rosalie Lautmann, Frantisek Zvarik as Marcus Kolkkocky.



10 Reasons you should watch The Shop On Main Street:

1. It is one of the most memorable films about Holocaust.
2. The film won a number of wards including The Academy Awards for the Best Foreign Language Film.
3. Ida Kaminska truly deserved to be nominated for the Academy Awards.
4. The film is tense and emotionally brutal but it captures the socio political era very effectively.
5. The Shop On Main Street is one of the most mesmerizing and heart breaking films.
6. Cinematographer Vladimír Novotný deserves real credits for his awesome cinematography.
7. The Shop On Main Steet is one of the best Czech films or top Czechoslovak movies ever made.
8. The film ranks under top 100 foreign films.
9. The film is a must watch for all cinema lovers.
10. The actors have done excellent performances.

I also recommend you to watch these two movies:

Secret Sunshine: This film is about a young widow who moves with her son from Seoul to a small town.

Another Year: In this film a happy married couple is surrounded by people who all seem to suffer from a certain amount of unhappiness.

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The Shop on Main Street is a 1965 Czechoslovak film about the Aryanization programme during World War II in the Slovak State. The film won the 1965 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and Kamiska was nominated in 1966 for Best Actress in a Leading Role. The film was also entered into the 1965 Cannes Film Festival.

Closely Watched Trains is a 1966 Czechoslovak film directed by Jiri Menzel. The film is based on a story by Bohumil Hrabal. It is a coming-of-age story about a boy working at a train station in German-occupied Czechoslovakia during World War II. It was filmed

Jan Kadar (April 1, 1918 - June 1, 1979) was a Slovak film writer and director. As a filmmaker, he worked in Slovakia, the Czech Republic, the United States, and Canada. Most of his films were directed in tandem with Elmar Klos. The two became best known for their Oscar-winning The Shop on Main Street (Obchod na korze, 1965).

Elmar Klos (January 26, 1910 - July 31, 1993) was a Czechoslovakian film director who collaborated for 17 years with Jan Kadar and with him won the 1965 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film with the film The Shop on Main Street.

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