Aktion	Zweigstelle	Standorte	Status	Frist	Vorbestellungen
Vorbestellen	Zweigstelle: 07., Urban-Loritz-Pl. 2a	Standorte: TT.KT.11 Shop / College 5a - Szene	Status: Verfügbar	Frist:	Vorbestellungen: 0

Winner of the Oscar® for Best Foreign Language Feature in 1965, Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos' "The Shop on the High Street" is one of the cornerstones of World Cinema, and perhaps the most internationally renowned film in all Czechoslovak cinema.

"Tóno" Brtko, a poor carpenter, is appointed by his despised Nazi brother-in-law to be "Aryan controller" of an old Jewish widow's sewing shop in a Nazi-occupied Slovakia in 1942. The widow, Rozalie (Yiddish theatre legend Ida Kaminska, nominated here for a Best Actress Oscar® for her performance) is near deaf, isolated and partially sighted, barely even aware of the war or able to comprehend the danger in which she lives. Believing Tóno is simply her new assistant, the two develop a friendship that sees him maintaining that fiction as he attempts to protect her from the encroaching Nazi horror.

"The Shop on the High Street" is a complex tale of common lives disturbed and destroyed by war. Wonderfully written and performed, and with an extraordinary Zdenek Liska score, the film becomes a devastating examination of how minor compromises can finally lead to complicity in the horrors of tyranny. (Verlagstext)