Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos
1965 • 125 minutes • 1.33:1 • Czechoslovakia
Spine: #130 Edition: DVD
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.