The Shop on Main Street
| The Shop on Main Street | |
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| Directed by | Ján Kadár Elmar Klos |
| Written by | Ladislav Grosman Ján Kadár Elmar Klos |
| Based on | The Shop on Main Street by Ladislav Grosman |
| Starring | Ida Kamińska Jozef Kroner Hana Slivková Martin Hollý, Sr. František Zvarík Martin Gregor |
| Cinematography | Vladimír Novotný |
| Edited by | Diana Heringová Jaromír Janáček |
| Music by | Zdeněk Liška |
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Running time | 125 minutes |
| Country | Czechoslovakia |
| Languages | Slovak Yiddish |
| Box office | $1,450,000 (US/ Canada) |
The Shop on Main Street (Czech/Slovak: Obchod na korze; in the UK The Shop on the High Street) is a 1965 Czechoslovak film about the Aryanization program during World War II in the Slovak Republic.
The film was written by Ladislav Grosman and directed by Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos. It was funded by the Czechoslovak central authorities, produced at the Barrandov Film Studio in Prague, and filmed with a Slovak cast on location in the town of Sabinov in north-eastern Slovakia and on the Barrandov sound stage. It stars Jozef Kroner as the Slovak carpenter Tóno Brtko and Polish actress Ida Kamińska as the Jewish widow Rozália Lautmannová.
The film won the 1965 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and Kamińska was nominated one year later for Best Actress in a Leading Role. It was entered into the 1965 Cannes Film Festival.