The Shop on Main Street

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The Shop on Main Street is a 1965 Czechoslovak drama film, co-directed by Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos, that poignantly depicts the moral dilemmas of the Holocaust through the relationship between a Slovak carpenter and an elderly Jewish shop owner.

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instanceOf Holocaust film
film
awardReceived 1965 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
Special Mention for Ida Kamińska at Cannes Film Festival
basedOn The Trap
short story by Ladislav Grosman
cinematography Vladimír Novotný
countryOfFirstRelease Czechoslovakia
countryOfOrigin Czechoslovakia
countryOfProduction Czechoslovakia
depicts Aryanization policies
Holocaust in Slovakia
director Elmar Klos
Ján Kadár
distributedBy Ústřední půjčovna filmů
editedBy Maximilián Remen
linked to: Maximilián Remeň
genre Holocaust drama
drama
historical drama
war drama
hasTheme antisemitism
complicity with oppression
courage and cowardice
moral responsibility
mainCharacter Rozália Lautmannová
Tóno Brtko
musicBy Zdeněk Liška
narrativeFocus moral dilemmas of an ordinary man under fascism
nominatedFor Academy Award for Best Actress for Ida Kamińska
originalLanguage Slovak
presentedAt Cannes Film Festival
producer Elmar Klos
Ján Kadár
productionCompany Kratký Film Bratislava
releaseDate 1965-03-09
releaseYear 1965
runningTime approximately 125 minutes
screenwriter Elmar Klos
Ján Kadár
Ladislav Grosman
setInCountry Slovakia
setInPeriod World War II
starring Hana Slivková
Ida Kamińska
Jozef Kroner
Martin Hollý
linked to: Marián Labuda

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Zora Rozsypalová notableWork The Shop on Main Street
Karel Černý notableWork The Shop on Main Street