Synopsis
An inept Czech peasant is torn between greed and guilt when the Nazi-backed bosses of his town appoint him “Aryan controller” of an old Jewish widow’s button shop. Humor and tragedy fuse in this scathing exploration of one cowardly man’s complicity in the horrors of a totalitarian regime. Made near the height of Soviet oppression in Czechoslovakia, The Shop on Main Street features intense editing and camera work which won it the Academy Award™ for Best Foreign Film in 1965.
Cast
| Rozalie Lautmann | Ida Kaminská |
| Tono Brtko | Josef Kroner |
| Marcus Kikotsky | Frantisek Zvarík |
| Evelyna Brtková | Hana Slivková |
| Katz | Martin Gregor |
| Piti Báci | Adam Matejka |
| Maian Peter | Mikulás Ladizinsky |
| Balko Báci | Alojz Kramár |
Credits
| Director | Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos |
| Screenplay | L. Grosman, Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos |
| Producer | Jordan Balurov and Jaromír Lukás |
| Music | Zdenek Liska |
| Cinematography | Vladimír Novotny |
| Editing | Diana Heringová and Jaromír Janácek |
| Costume design | Marie Rosenfelderová |
| Production Design | Karel Skvor |
| Sound | Dobroslav Srámek |
Disc Features
- New digital transfer
- U.S. theatrical trailer
- New and improved English subtitle translation
- Optimal image quality: RSDL dual-layer edition
From the Current
The Shop on Main Street:
Not the Six Million but the One
by
Sep 17, 2001
Of all my films, The Shop on Main Street touches me most closely. Elmar Klos and I usually work as equal partners, but in this case he left me a free hand. He knows that I am not thinking of the fate of all the six million tortured Jews, but that my work is . . .
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