Word: kadar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SOUTH HOUSE FESTIVAL OF CZECHOSLOVAK FILMS: HILLES CINEMA, The Shop on Main Street, (Jan Kadar), The Cowards (Jiri Weiss) Nov. 30, at 7:30, $2, Fireman's Ball (Milos Forman) Intimate Lighting (Ivan Passer), Dec. 1, at 7:30, $2, films introduced by A. J. Liehm. Czech film critic, and discussed by the directors, The Joke (Jaromil Jires), Daisies (Vera Chytilova), Dec. 2, at 7:30, $2, series ticket...
Shop on Main Street, by Jan Kadar and Elmar Klos, was the first Czechoslovak film to create a bit stir in the United States. The warm reception it received in 1965 helped lead to the Museum of Modern Art's major festival of Czechoslovak films in 1967. Shop on Main street takes place in German-occupied Slovakia in 1942. A tragic story of a shopkeeper unable to fight German antisemitism. it is nevertheless, at times, whimsical and sentimental...
ERVIN MEREY-KADAR...
...barren as are the prospects for Soviet departure. The famous avant-garde Theater Behind the Gates has been closed down, and the political cabarets that flourished in the late 1960s have disappeared. Such well-known Czechoslovak film directors as Milos Forman (Loves of a Blonde) and Jan Kadar (The Shop on Main Street) are now working in the West, while others who stayed home are banned from their profession. "The pressures are too great," one Czechoslovak intellectual explained. "It's all right if you are simply an actor, a singer or a stage designer...
...progress of new friendship between contrasting governments is obviously bound to be uncertain. Yemen's decision to renew its ties with the U.S. brought howls of outrage from Cairo. Kadar, meanwhile, advised Rogers: "Please remember Hungary's tragic history, its geographical position and its lack of resources." This seemed to mean that even though Budapest seeks closer relations with Washington, it may be forced from time to time to stiffen its attitude in order to appease Moscow...