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Shop On High Street
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport)
(England-Import)
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"All that is necessary for the triumph of eviI is that good men do nothing" Edmund Burke
Winner of the Oscar® for Best Foreign Language Feature in 1965, Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos THE SHOP ON THE HlGH STREET is one of the cornerstones of World Cinema, and perhaps the most internationally renowned film of the Czech New Wave.
Antonin Tono Brtko is a poor carpenter appointed by his Nazi brother-in-Iaw to be 'Aryan controIler' of an oId Jewish widow s sewing shop in a Nazi-occupied SIovakian town in 1942. The widow, Rozalie (Yiddish theatre Iegend Idá Kaminská, nominated here for a Best Actress Oscar® for her performance) is near deaf, isoIated and partiaIly sighted. Barely even registering there is a war going on, she fails to fully realize the impIications of the context in which she lives. BeIieving Tono is simpIy her new assistant, the two deveIop a tentative friendship that sees him maintaining that fiction as he attempts to protect her from the encroaching Nazi horror.
Moving effortlessly from drama to humour to tragedy, THE SHOP ON THE HIGH STREET is a compIex poIitical morality tale of common Iives disturbed and destroyed by war. A story of loyalty, betrayaI, cowardice and heroism, it is a scathing exploration of how minor compromises can lead to compIicity in the horrors of a totaIitarian regime. lt asks every spectator: 'lf it had been you, what wouId you have done?'
BLU-RAY AND DVD SPEClAL EDlTION CONTENTS
The Shop on the High Street (1965) presented from a brand new HD transfer of the fiIm Original Slovak soundtrack in Dual Mono 24-bit LPCM audio New and improved EngIish subtitIe transIation BookIet featuring a new essay MORE TBC |
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