The Shop on Main Street [Obchod na korze]

Jan Kadar, Elmar Klos (directors, screenwriters)
Ladislav Grosman (screenwriter)
Ida Kaminska, Jozef Kroner, Hana Slivkova, Martin Holly (starring)

N.p. Prominent Films, 1965. Vintage press kit for the US release of the classic 1965 Czechoslovakian film, for use by distributors and the press, containing 24 black and white photographs, three pressbooks, and a poster for the film, all housed in a white paper envelope with the film's logo on the recto.

Based on the 1962 short story "The Trap" by screenwriter Ladislav Grosman. A Slovak man is given a sewing notions shop owned by an elderly Jewish woman as part of the government's Aryanization program. He doesn't have the heart to tell her, and pretends to be her new employee. The two form a bond, which is tested when the authorities begin rounding up the town's Jewish population.

One of the comparatively few films from the Czechoslovak New Wave filmed in the Slovak as opposed to the Czech language. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language film.

Poster, photographs, and pressbooks Near Fine.

Criterion Collection 130.


[Book #151593]