Episode 434: Shop on Main Street (1965)

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The Projection Booth

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2019

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Summary

We conclude Czechtember 2019 with a look at Jan Kadar and Elmar Klos’s The Shop on Main Street. Also known as the Shop on High Street, the film was released in 1965 and written by Ladislav Grosman, based on his own story and book. The film tells the tale of Tono, a carpenter who has been refused from working on his little town’s major building project. Instead, he’s assigned to be the Aryan face of a Jewish shop run currently by Mrs. Lautman, a nearly deaf and partially blind widow.
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0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.
0:04.5	Christopher Media. Let's make some noise.
0:07.3	From Czechoslovakia comes a masterpiece of our time.
0:11.4	The shop on Main Street.
0:13.8	It's 1942, a small town in Slovakia.
0:18.1	Rosalia, the elderly widow who owns a little button shop.
0:23.7	Tono the luckless town carpenter, a simple, decent man.
0:28.8	His wife, Evelyn, avaricious and lusty.
0:33.7	His hated brother-in-law, commander of the town's Nazi militia. Here is a warm and humorous story of ordinary people
0:42.3	caught in the web of history's tragic events.
0:45.3	Tono is proclaimed Aryan controller of the shop of a poor Jewish widow.
0:50.3	He comes as her oppressor
0:53.3	and finds instead that he has become her helper and
0:57.0	ultimately her benefactor and friend. Out of this relationship unfolds a story of shattering
1:05.0	force, the shop on Main Street, a searing and powerful film that will move you to laughter and tears with its revelation of human frailty.
1:18.6	A once peaceful village is taken over by the local militia.
1:30.3	A leader of the community is pilloried. An old lady is about to be deported.
1:36.3	And a simple man must answer the thundering question.
1:41.3	Am I my brother's keeper? The Shop on Main Street. A film the
1:49.6	critics have proclaimed a masterpiece. Directed by Jan Kadar and Elmer Close, starring Ida
1:55.9	Kaminska and Yosef Kroner, the winner of the 1965 Cannes Film Festival Special Acting Awards.
2:02.6	The shop on Main Street, compelling, haunting.
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