Cinematography:
Vladimír NovotnýComposer:
Zdeněk LiškaCast:
Ida Kamińska, Jozef Kroner, František Zvarík, Hana Slivková, Martin Hollý st., Elena Zvaríková-Pappová, Martin Gregor, Adam Matejka, Mikuláš Ladižinský (more)Plots(1)
‘Tóno’ Brtko, a poor carpenter, is appointed by his despised Nazi brother-in-law to be 'Aryan controller' of an old Jewish widow’s sewing shop in a Nazi-occupied Slovakia in 1942. The widow, Rozalia (Yiddish theatre legend Ida Kamińska, nominated here for a Best Actress Oscar® for her performance) is near deaf, isolated and partially sighted, barely even aware of the war or able to comprehend the danger in which she lives. Believing Tóno is simply her new assistant, the two develop a friendship that sees him maintaining that fiction as he attempts to protect her from the encroaching Nazi horror. The Shop on the High Street is a complex tale of common lives disturbed and destroyed by war. Wonderfully written and performed, and with an extraordinary Zdenek Liška score, the film becomes a devastating examination of how minor compromises can finally lead to complicity in the horrors of tyranny. Winner of the Oscar® for Best Foreign Language Feature in 1965, Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos’ The Shop on the High Street (aka The Shop on Main Street) is one of the cornerstones of World Cinema, and perhaps the most internationally renowned film in all Czechoslovak cinema. (Second Run)
(more)Cast
Ida Kamińska
Russian Empire
Best movies:
The Shop on Main Street (1965)
Border Street (1948)
The Angel Levine (1970)
Jozef Kroner
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
The Shop on Main Street (1965)
Sváko Ragan (1976) (TV movie)
Rysavá jalovica (1970) (TV movie)
František Zvarík
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
The Shop on Main Street (1965)
Na skle maľované (1980) (TV movie)
Red Wine (1976) (TV movie)
Hana Slivková
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
The Shop on Main Street (1965)
Sváko Ragan (1976) (TV movie)
The Boxer and Death (1962)
Martin Hollý st.
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
The Shop on Main Street (1965)
St. Elizabeth Square (1965)
Jánošík (1935)
Elena Zvaríková-Pappová
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
The Shop on Main Street (1965)
Forty-Four Mutineers (1957)
Kým kohút nezaspieva (1972)
Martin Gregor
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Dvanásť nahnevaných mužov (1979) (TV movie)
The Shop on Main Street (1965)
Jánošík I., II. (1963)
Adam Matejka
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
The Shop on Main Street (1965)
Sváko Ragan (1976) (TV movie)
Rok na dedine (1967) (TV movie)
Mikuláš Ladižinský
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
The Shop on Main Street (1965)
Sváko Ragan (1976) (TV movie)
Red Wine (1976) (TV movie)
Alojz Kramár
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Dvanásť nahnevaných mužov (1979) (TV movie)
The Shop on Main Street (1965)
Sváko Ragan (1976) (TV movie)
Eugen Senaj
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
The Shop on Main Street (1965)
Forty-Four Mutineers (1957)
St. Peter's Umbrella (1958)
Tibor Vadaš
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
The Shop on Main Street (1965)
Nepokojná láska (1975) (series)
Kľúče od mesta (1983) (TV movie)
František Papp
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
The Shop on Main Street (1965)
Zypa Cupak (1976) (TV movie)
Výšiny (1968) (TV movie)
Gita Strížencová-Mišurová
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
The Shop on Main Street (1965)
Ohnivé križovatky (1974)
František Bujdák
Best movies:
The Shop on Main Street (1965)
Bocianie hniezdo (1981) (series)
Andrej Šilan
Poland
Best movies:
The Shop on Main Street (1965)
Ešte sa nevraciam (1975) (TV movie)
Fyzikus Rayman (1979) (TV movie)
Anton Baláž
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
The Shop on Main Street (1965)
Pacho, the Thief of Hybe (1975)
Bičianka z doliny (1981) (TV movie)
Martin Hajný
Best movies:
The Shop on Main Street (1965)
Štefan Petrák
Best movies:
The Shop on Main Street (1965)
Accused (1964)
The Last Witch (1957)
Ladislav Farkaš
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
The Shop on Main Street (1965)
Nevera po slovensky (1980)
Smrť chodí po horách (1979) (TV movie)