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...important event in the international film world. Like the festivals at Cannes or Venice, it provided a survey of the most recent masterpieces established directors, such as Godard, Kurosawa, Visconti, Ray, and Dreyer. In addition, the New York showing introduced much fresh talent. Three brilliant Eastern European directors, Jan Kadar and Milos Forman from Czechoslovakia and Jerzy Skolimowski from Poland, had their American debut at the Festival...
Half of the audience in Philharmonic Hall gave The 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...
When Britko drinks, Kadar places a rum glass before the lens; when Britko wakes up, the camera moves slowly along the ceiling and wall and finally up his legs, coming into focus with exquisite timing. Soon the audience becomes vicarious inhabitants of Britko's village. We walk down the main street behind Briko as he tips his hat to friends; we stop to hear an old fiddler play a bitter-sweet tune; we cringe when a Nazi dragoon marches...
...Shop on High Street, made last year by Czechoslovakian Co-Directors Jan Kadar and Elmar Klos, took festivalgoers in New York back to the year 1942, when the Jews of a little Slovakian town incredulously learned that Hitler's pogrom had begun. Shop starts as a warm and well played village comedy. Tono Brtko (Josef Króner) is a simple and straightforward carpenter in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia who hates his brother-in-law, the local Gauleiter, but accepts a supposedly lucrative plum from him-appointment as "Aryan manager" and ideological overseer of a Jewish button shop...
...Seine, and madame is not Coco. She is Klara Rothschild of Budapest, oracle of fashion throughout Communist Europe, recipient of the Order of Labor in the People's Republic of Hungary, and at a state-paid salary of $20,000 a year, one of János Kadar's most generously valued national assets...