4. Ján Kadár, Elmar Klos: The Shop on Main Street (Obchod na korze, 1965)



5 March



Screenplay: Ladislav Grossman, Ján Kadár, Elmar Klos, from the book by Ladislav Grossman. Director
of photography: Vladimír Novotný. Editors: Jaromír Janáček and Diana Heringová. Music: Zdeněk
Liška. Cast: Jozef Kroner (Tono Brtko), Ida Kamińska (Rozálie Lautmannová), Hana Slivková (Evelyna
Brtková), František Zvarík (Markus Kolkocka), Elena Zvaríková (Ružena Kolkocká), Martin Hollý (Imro
Kuchár). 125 min.



The first Oscar-winner in Czechoslovak cinema: a tragicomedy set in the period of the fascist state
in Slovakia, the story of a deaf old Jewish woman (Ida Kamińska) and her “Aryan controller” (Jozef
Kroner). One of the best films about the holocaust, telling the story from the point of view of
“ordinary people”.



Assigned reading:


Hames, Peter. The Czechoslovak New Wave: “Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos”

Urgošíková, Blažena. “Obchod na korze” (“The Shop on Main Street”)