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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 Króner) who is put in charge of the business, and the fate, of a shiningly innocent old Jewish shopkeeper (Ida Kamiska...
...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. Humor and fantasy heighten the impact of this keen-edged Czech tragedy. In a complacent Slovakian village in 1942, a henpecked nobody (Josef Króner) befriends but ultimately betrays the doomed old Jewess (Ida Kamiñska) whose button shop is given to him by the Nazis...
What Mahler left of the work was a patchy sketch of seemingly inscrutable calligraphy. In 1924, Composer Ernst Krřenek stitched together the more fully outlined first and third movements, but abandoned the rest as unsalvageable. Then in 1960, British Musicologist Deryck Cooke set out to solve the enigma. Making a painstaking note-by-note transcription of Mahler's sketch, Cooke "found to my amazement that what I was slowly writing down was entirely intelligible and indeed fascinating music...
...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...