The shop on Main Street

Author

Jan Kadar

Call Number

• DVD FOREIGN (CEN)

Performers

Josef Kroner, Ida Kaminska, Hana Slivková.

Publication Information

[S.l.] : Home Vision Cinema, c2001.

Physical Description

1 videodisc (125 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

In 1942, Tono and his wife are struggling because of his antipathy towards the fascist regime. His brother-in-law, the local fuehrer, chooses Tono to oversee a button shop owned by a sweet, harmless Jewish widow, Mrs. Lautman. Unable to explain his position to Mrs. Lautman, Tono gradually accepts her belief that he is her assistant. When the Jews are ordered deported, the well-meaning Tono decides to shield her from the Nazis.

Notes

DVD format ; Dolby digital mono.

Videodisc release of the 1965 motion picture.

Based on the novel by Ladislav Grosman.

Not rated.

In Czech/Slovak with optional English subtitles.

1965 Academy Award winner, Best foreign language film.

Special features include: New digital transfer ; U.S. theatrical trailer ; new and improved English subtitle translation ; optimal image quality: RSDL dual-layer edition.

Presented in its original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.33:1.