The Shop on Main Street

Czechoslovakia 1965 / 125 min. / DCP & Blu-ray

Director → Ján Kadár, Elmar Klos / Screenplay → Ladislav Grosman, Ján Kadár, Elmar Klos / Director of Photography → Vladimír Novotný / Set Designer → Karel Škvor / Editor → Jaromír Janáček / Music → Zdeněk Liška / Cast→ Ida Kamińska, Jozef Kroner, František Zvarík, Hana Slivková, Martin Hollý st., Elena Zvariková, Martin Gregor, Adam Matejka, Mikuláš Ladižinský, Juraj Herz a další

A psychological drama about the implementation of the Nazis’ Nuremberg Laws, which has a major impact on a town in eastern Slovakia. Local Jews are forced to depart for concentration camps, and their possessions are confiscated. One of the most celebrated Czechoslovak films represents a pinnacle of the Czechoslovak New Wave and won the Best Foreign Film Oscar in 1967.