'The Shop on Main Street'

October 25, 2021 6:12 PM

'Obchod na korze' y/t.

'The Shop on Main Street' is a 1965 Czechoslovakian film about the Aryanization program during World War II in the Slovak State."

posted by clavdivs (4 comments total)

This film won the Oscar for Best Foreign Picture over Godard's "Pierrot le Fou", De Sica's "Marriage Italian Style", and Kobayashi's "Kwaidan". I haven't seen it so really I can't make a judgement, but this film I've never heard of somehow won an Oscar instead of these great films. I'll definitely give it a shot.
posted by jwest at 6:41 PM on October 25, 2021

This is an incredible film about the humanity and inhumanity of ordinary people during the Holocaust, in a country that had officially allied itself with Germany and where many supported the deportation of Jews. Jozef Króner (the lead actor in Obchod na Korze) was a national treasure.
posted by Atrahasis at 6:45 PM on October 25, 2021 [1 favorite]

Oh yes. This film is heavy.
posted by gwint at 8:07 PM on October 25, 2021

Beautiful and sad.
posted by waving at 3:28 PM on October 26, 2021