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
Elena Šoltésová
Best movies:
The Shop on Main Street (1965)
Maroško (1968) (TV movie)
Milan Drotár
Best movies:
The Shop on Main Street (1965)
Študent (1990) (TV movie)
Bocianie hniezdo (1981) (series)
Jozef Hatok
Best movies:
The Shop on Main Street (1965)
Oldřich Kratochvíl
Best movies:
The Shop on Main Street (1965)
Pacho, the Thief of Hybe (1975)
Naši synovia (1975) (series)
Július Piussi
Best movies:
The Shop on Main Street (1965)
Bičianka z doliny (1981) (TV movie)
Jozef Stražan
Slovak state
Best movies:
The Shop on Main Street (1965)
Sebechlebskí hudci (1975)
Quo vadis (2013) (theatrical recording)
Juraj Herz
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
The Shop on Main Street (1965)
Lemonade Joe (1964)
Pacho, the Thief of Hybe (1975)
Ladislav Fecko
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
The Shop on Main Street (1965)
Pacho, the Thief of Hybe (1975)
Naši synovia (1975) (series)
Stanislav Kubiš
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
The Shop on Main Street (1965)
Nevera po slovensky (1980)
Horoucí srdce (1962)
Václav Podhorský
Best movies:
The Shop on Main Street (1965)
The Stolen Airship (1966)
Death Is Called Engelchen (1963)
Štefan Servátka
Best movies:
The Shop on Main Street (1965)
Národný hriešnik (1994) (TV movie)
Explózia (1982) (TV movie)
Zdeněk Skalický
Best movies:
Jára Cimrman Lying, Sleeping (1983)
The Shop on Main Street (1965)
Waiter, Scarper! (1980)
Jozef Príhoda
Best movies:
The Shop on Main Street (1965)
Death Is Called Engelchen (1963)
The Black Dynasty (1962)
Pavol Simko
Best movies:
The Shop on Main Street (1965)
Looking Back (1968)
Why Not Believe in Miracles? (1977)
Ján Mišura
Best movies:
The Shop on Main Street (1965)
Ján Pelech
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
The Shop on Main Street (1965)
Dragon's Return (1967)
Človek na moste (1972)
Luisa Grossová
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
The Shop on Main Street (1965)
Organ (1964)
The Tank Brigade (1955)