Word: aryanized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SHOP ON MAIN STREET. This Czech drama hurls the question of universal guilt into a tranquil, Nazi-occupied Slovakian village in 1942. The case concerns a little Aryan nobody (Josef Kroner) who is put in charge of the business, and the fate of a shinlngly innocent old Jewish shopkeeper (Ida Kaminska...
...SHOP ON MAIN STREET. This poignant Czech drama hurls the question of universal guilt into a tranquil but non-occupied Slovakian village in 1942. The case concerns a Chaplinesque little nobody (Josef Króner) who, because he is an Aryan, is put in charge of the business, and the fate, of a shiningly innocent old Jewish shopkeeper (Ida Kami...
...SHOP ON MAIN STREET. Set in Nazi-controlled Slovakia in 1942, this perfectly played Czech masterpiece reduces an awesome tragedy to human size. Its seriocomic hero is a well-meaning Aryan nonentity (Josef Kroner) who seizes the button shop owned by a feeble, trusting old Jewess (Ida Kaminska) and finds himself a partner in her fate...
...actors themselves were a pretty dreary lot with the exception of that brilliant clown Paul Benedict and the more-Aryan-than-Thou Larry Bryggman. Jo Lane was tedious in the virtuoso role of "The Jewish Wife" and Ted Kazanoff inadequate as the perplexed Judge in "Quest for Justice." Granted it was opening night, I wonder if that is any excuse in a professional company for the inordinate number of missed cues, dropped lines, and fumbled props. The one bright note was the new translation by the Harvard Graduate School's own Kenneth Tigar and Clayton Koelb, which sounded superior...
...Shop on High Street a deserved five-minute standing ovation; the other half remained seated, paralyzed by the film's impact. Director Jan Kadar uses his camera as the eyes of Tono Britko to place the viewer inside the mind of the simple farmer who the Nazis make the "Aryan Manager" of a Jewish button shop in Czechoslovakia...