The Shop on the High Street (1965)

(Obchod na Korze)

Country: CZ
Technical: bw 128m
Director: Jan Kadar, Einar Klos
Cast: Ida Kaminska, Jozef Kroner, Hana Slivkova

Synopsis:

A shopkeeper shelters Jews from the Germans.

Review:

Comic and touching quotidian look at the human agency behind the holocaust, with a very dramatic conclusion. A significant - and therapeutic - production for its country.