The Shop on Main Street

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Jozef Kroner in The Shop on Main Street

The Shop on Main Street

film by Kadár and Klos [1965]

Also known as: “Obchod na korze”, “The Shop on High Street”

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Ján Kadár
title, The Shop on Main Street; U.K. title, The Shop on High Street), the drama of an ordinary Czechoslovak citizen who is confronted with a personal moral decision regarding the Nazi persecution of the Jews. This film won the New York Film Critics Award and the…
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title, The Shop on Main Street; U.K. title, The Shop on High Street), the drama of an ordinary Czechoslovak citizen who is confronted with a personal moral decision regarding the Nazi persecution of the Jews. This film won the New York Film Critics Award and the…
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Slovakia
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…the best known internationally is The Shop on Main Street (1965), directed by Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos. It received an Academy Award (for best foreign-language film), the first ever awarded to a Czechoslovakian production. Among internationally recognized Slovak film directors is Juraj Jakubisko, who first gained acclaim during the…
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…the best known internationally is The Shop on Main Street (1965), directed by Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos. It received an Academy Award (for best foreign-language film), the first ever awarded to a Czechoslovakian production. Among internationally recognized Slovak film directors is Juraj Jakubisko, who first gained acclaim during the…
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