| The Shop on Main Street | |
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 Film poster | |
| Directed by | Ján Kadár Elmar Klos |
| Written by | Ladislav Grosman Ján Kadár Elmar Klos |
| Based on | The Shop on Main Street by Ladislav Grosman |
| Starring | Ida Kamińska Jozef Kroner Hana Slivková Martin Hollý, Sr. František Zvarík Martin Gregor |
| Cinematography | Vladimír Novotný |
| Edited by | Diana Heringová Jaromír Janáček |
| Music by | Zdeněk Liška |
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Release date |
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Running time | 125 minutes |
| Country | Czechoslovakia |
| Languages | Slovak Yiddish |
| Box office | $1,450,000 (US/ Canada)[1] |
The Shop on Main Street (Czech/Slovak: Obchod na korze; in the UK The Shop on the High Street) is a 1965 Czechoslovakian film[2] about the Aryanization program during World War II in the Slovak Republic.[3]
The film was written by Ladislav Grosman and directed by Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos. It was funded by the Czechoslovakian central authorities, produced at the Barrandov Film Studio in Prague, and filmed with a Slovak cast on location in the town of Sabinov in north-eastern Slovakia and on the Barrandov sound stage. It stars Jozef Kroner as the Slovak carpenter Tóno Brtko and Polish actress Ida Kamińska as the Jewish widow Rozália Lautmannová.[4]
The film won the 1965 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film,[5] and Kamińska was nominated one year later for Best Actress in a Leading Role.[6] It was entered into the 1965 Cannes Film Festival.[7]
- ^ "Big Rental Films of 1967", Variety, 3 January 1968 p 25. Please note these figures refer to rentals accruing to the distributors.
- ^ Andrew James Horton, "Just Who Owns the Shop? — Identity and nationality in Obchod na korze"
- ^ Steven Banovac, "Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos: The Shop on Main Street (Obchod na korze) 1965"
- ^ Martin Votruba, "Historical and Cultural Background of Slovak Filmmaking"
- ^ "The 38th Academy Awards (1966) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2011-11-06.
- ^ Elizabeth Taylor Wins Best Actress: 1967 Oscars
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: The Shop on Main Street". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-03-05.