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Obchod na Korze (1965)

Drama | 128 minutes
3,90 96 votes

Genre: Drama / War

Duration: 128 minuten

Alternative titles: The Shop on Main Street / Het Winkeltje aan het Corso

Country: Czechoslovakia

Directed by: Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos

Stars: Ida Kamińska, Jozef Kroner and Hana Slivková

IMDb score: 8,2 (10.109)

Releasedate: 9 September 1965

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Obchod na Korze plot

Czechoslovakia, 1942. An expanding fascist mindset takes over a small-town environment. A furniture maker is assigned to take over a Jewish shop. However, he builds a relationship with the owner. Although he is aware of the injustice done to her, there is no turning back for himself.

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Rozalia Lautmannová

Antonin 'Tono' Brtko

Markus Kolkocký

Evelyna Brtková

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wibro

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Very difficult for me to judge this film. The last twenty minutes, which if I read the reactions like that, should leave you with a lump in your throat, I thought was the least of this otherwise good drama about a piece of Holocaust history. This is mainly due to the extremely drunk Brtko, whose screams really started to bother me. This could have been done quite a bit differently. Lautmann did a lot better for me, although she met her end very quickly in that closet even though she didn't stay there for long. I didn't find it entirely believable. I therefore thought that the strongest part of the film was not the scenes with the two main characters, but even more so the image given in this film that when it came down to it, everyone chose their own skin and continued to do so to the extent that they were prepared to deport them. to prepare the Jews themselves instead of leaving it to the SS. Yes, the Jews in the Netherlands, insofar as they had survived the war, could have a say in this. We Dutch were no braver during the war than those Slovaks who were mainly known during the war as collaborators of Nazi Germany.
What especially deserves praise in this film is the beautiful ominous soundtrack that announced the impending doom in a truly sublime way. This song Oyfn Oyvn Zitst A Meydl that sounded from the gramophone and was sung along by the widow Lautmann and that touched me deeply is also not allowed. remain unmentioned.
It is striking that so many Jews have German-sounding names. Lautmann, Rozenzweig, Katz, Weinstein etc. Must have a history.

3.5*

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Dievegge

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Kádar and Klos sounds like the name of a comedy duo, but they were two serious directors who worked together for seventeen years. Jan Kádar was a Hungarian Jew who lost his family in Auschwitz.

It is set in 1942 in Sabinov, a small town in Slovakia. Jozef Kroner does not play a resistance hero or collaborator, but an ordinary guy who prefers to walk around with his dog. His brother cooperates with the occupier, so that he can buy nicer clothes for his wife and distribute better food. Ida Kamínska plays the elderly shopkeeper who sees Tóno as a replacement for her fallen son. For a long time she doesn't seem to understand what is going on, until she says the word pogrom, which shows that she understands it very well.

The ordinary life of that time is depicted, with the simple clothes, the sober interiors and the cuckoo clock. Folk music and street bands are featured, but the music of Zdeněk Liška also contains the modern influence of Béla Bartók. The camera movements emphasize the oppressive atmosphere, the moral dilemma of the protagonist, his sweating, his drunkenness and the realization of his personal insignificance.

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Fisico (moderator films)

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Extremely fascinating film about the emerging fascism during the Second World War in Slovakia. With the construction of that tower I had to look up what that symbol meant. It was not a swastika, but the double cross, then the symbol of the collaborationist Slovak National People's Party and, by the way, still present in the official flag of Slovakia today.

I had to get through the first twenty minutes with that revelry at home, but by then it was already clear how sensitive Tony's wife was to outward and material appearances.

Tony himself, a naive, but someone with his heart in the right place, is given control of a Jewish store. He takes care of the old grandmother who runs the shop. The interaction between the two of them is endearing and also quite funny. Particularly strong last half hour that leaves you with an empty feeling. Good looking!

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