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...SHOP ON MAIN STREET. Well deserving of its Oscar, the of best its foreign to film of the year owes much of its Josef Krōner and Ida Kaminska as a couple of harmless villagers who have to work out their own answers to the Jewish question in Nazi-dominated Czechoslovakia...
...years in the making, the Yugoslav protocol was merely the latest in a long line of negotiating successes that have earned Casaroli the Roman nickname of "the divine diplomat." In recent years, hardworking, hard-traveling Diplomat Casaroli has obtained the release from confinement of Czechoslovakia's Josef Cardinal Beran, arranged an agreement with the Hungarian government by which Pope Paul VI was able to fill a number of vacant dioceses, and negotiated a treaty with Tunisia regulating the rights of the Catholic minority in that Moslem country...
...directed by Frank Hauser, the production's most consistence and all-of-a-piece performance is Josef Sommer's as Malvolio, who with the Clown constitute the fulcrum upon which the play seesawa. This portrayal is well-spoken and properly starchy, comical without intending to be, always controlled and never overdone. Sommer's handling of the scene where he reads the forged letter, which he reads the forged letter, which he amusingly first employs as a fan, works admirably except that, when he quotes, "If this fall into thy hand, revolve," he ought to spin around in ridiculous compliance...
...SHOP ON MAIN STREET. Cast by the Nazis as persecutor of a helpless old Jewish shopkeeper (Ida Kaminska), a seriocomic Aryan nonentity (Josef Kroner) struggles against moral bankruptcy in a fine Czechoslovakian drama that reduces the march of history to events on a pathetically human scale...
...played it back in Poland is the only way." In addition, the parade of guest conductors has turned the players into musical chameleons, denied them a distinctive style that they can call their own. Says one flutist: "Under Paul Paray we play the Leonore Overture in eleven minutes; under Josef Krips we do it in 15 minutes...