The Shop on Main Street (Czech/Slovak: Obchod na korze; in the UK The
Shop on the High Street) is a 1965 Czechoslovak film about the
Aryanization programme during World War II in the Slovak State.The
film was written by Ladislav Grosman and directed by Ján Kadár and
Elmar Klos. It was funded by the Czechoslovakian central authorities
(as were all films under the Communist regime), produced at the
Barrandov Film Studio in Prague, and filmed with a Slovak cast on
location at the town of Sabinov in north-eastern Slovakia and on the
Barrandov sound stage. It stars Jozef Kroner as carpenter Tóno Brtko
and Polish actress Ida Kamińska as the Jewish widow Rozália
Lautmannová.The film won the 1965 Academy Award for Best Foreign
Language Film, and Kamińska was nominated one year later for Best
Actress in a Leading Role. The film was entered into the 1965 Cannes
Film Festival.During World War II, a mild-mannered Slovak carpenter
Anton "Tóno" Brtko is offered ownership of the sewing notions i.e.
haberdasher store of an old, near-deaf Jewish woman, Rozália
Lautmannová, as an Aryanization regulation is enacted. As Brtko
attempts to explain to Lautmannová, who is oblivious to the world
outside and generally confused, that he is now her supervisor and the
owner of the store, Imrich Kuchár, a Slovak opponent of Aryanization,
informs Brtko that the business is unprofitable and Lautmannová
relies on donations. The Jewish community then offers to pay Brtko a
salary if he nevertheless stays in charge, to prevent it being given
to a new, possibly ruthless Aryanizer. He accepts and lets
Lautmannová believe he is her nephew who has come to help.
Shop on the High Street) is a 1965 Czechoslovak film about the
Aryanization programme during World War II in the Slovak State.The
film was written by Ladislav Grosman and directed by Ján Kadár and
Elmar Klos. It was funded by the Czechoslovakian central authorities
(as were all films under the Communist regime), produced at the
Barrandov Film Studio in Prague, and filmed with a Slovak cast on
location at the town of Sabinov in north-eastern Slovakia and on the
Barrandov sound stage. It stars Jozef Kroner as carpenter Tóno Brtko
and Polish actress Ida Kamińska as the Jewish widow Rozália
Lautmannová.The film won the 1965 Academy Award for Best Foreign
Language Film, and Kamińska was nominated one year later for Best
Actress in a Leading Role. The film was entered into the 1965 Cannes
Film Festival.During World War II, a mild-mannered Slovak carpenter
Anton "Tóno" Brtko is offered ownership of the sewing notions i.e.
haberdasher store of an old, near-deaf Jewish woman, Rozália
Lautmannová, as an Aryanization regulation is enacted. As Brtko
attempts to explain to Lautmannová, who is oblivious to the world
outside and generally confused, that he is now her supervisor and the
owner of the store, Imrich Kuchár, a Slovak opponent of Aryanization,
informs Brtko that the business is unprofitable and Lautmannová
relies on donations. The Jewish community then offers to pay Brtko a
salary if he nevertheless stays in charge, to prevent it being given
to a new, possibly ruthless Aryanizer. He accepts and lets
Lautmannová believe he is her nephew who has come to help.
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