The Shop on Main Street

Year: 1965

Runtime: 128 mins

Language: Slovak

Directors: Ján Kadár, Elmar Klos

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In a Nazi‑occupied Slovak town during World War II, timid carpenter Tono becomes the “Aryan comptroller” of a button shop owned by the elderly Jewish widow Rozalie. The job gives him a salary and standing, pulling him between greed and guilt as a friendship grows. When officials order the town’s Jews to be rounded up, Tono faces a moral crisis.

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