The Shop on Main Street
- Ida Kaminska: Rozalie Lautmann
- Jozef Kroner: Antonín Brtko
- Hana Slivková: Evelyna Brtková
- Martin Hollý: Imro Kuchar
- Adám Matejka: Piti Baci
- František Zvarík: Marcus Kolkotsky
- Mikulas Ladizinsky: Marian Peter
- Martin Gregor: Jozef Katz, hairdresser
- Alojz Kramár: Balko, the bandmaster
- Gita Mišurová: Andoricová
- František Papp: Andoric
- Helena Zvaríková: Rose Kolkotsky
- Tibor Vadas: tobacconist
- Eugen Senaj: Blue, treasurer of the Jewish welfare organization
- Luise Grossová: Eliášová
The shop in the main street is a Czechoslovakian film directed by Ján Kadár Elmar Klos and from 1965, which was also known under the German title The shop on the parade and received several awards.
Action
In times of the First Slovak Republic, the poor and non-political carpenter Tono Brtko in 1942, is his brother Marcus Kolkotsky, the city leaders at the Hlinka Guard, was appointed "Aryan trustee" of a small business on the main street. His greedy wife Evelyna is blinded by the potential profit from the sales, while Tono soon finds out that the business, which is part of the deaf and reclusive old widow Rozalie Lautmann, is bankrupt and persists only through the financial support that the old woman obtained by the Jewish community. Tono is the more or less involuntary helpers of woman Lautmann, they support the business, repaired their furniture, while on the other hand, fooling his own wife that he already earns money through the store. Here, the indifferent Tono is brought by regular cash allocation of the Jewish community to behave half-way decent. When the Jews to be deported by the Nazis from the city, Tono decides to help the old widow. This initially seems like anything but, the danger she is in and that Tono wants to help her. He gets drunk, whereby fears are aroused that he could fly up as their accomplices. In his ambivalence he wants to deliver first, until he remembers better. When she finally understands that it is about the deportation of the Jews, it gets out of fear of a pogrom in panic. In his fear of being discovered by their behavior, he pushes her by force in a storage room in which it plunges to death. When he discovered this, he decides to hang himself.
Awards
The film has won several awards and received an Oscar at the Academy Awards in 1966 as Best Foreign Language Film. Ida Kaminska 1966 was furthermore nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress and received together with Jozef Kroner at the International Film Festival of Cannes 1965, a special award for the acting representations. Furthermore, the film at the Festival for the Palme d'Or was nominated for Best Feature Film. 1967 Ida Kaminska was also nominated as best actress in a drama for the Golden Globe Award.
In addition, the film won the Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award (1967) and the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Foreign Language Film (1966 ) and the Audience Award at Pilsen Film Festival in 1968.
Criticism
" An impressive film, the lives of the great acting performances of the main actors Kroner and Kamińska and the stylistic consistency of a realistic staging, which loses intensity only in some dream sequences. "
" A committed social study with outstanding actor and convincing performances of milieu. "
" An unfortunately always topical subject in a masterly design: Totalitarian systems can rely on the cooperation and decent people because great power " Average conscience " slays. Recommended as a reminder and warning. "