Ján Kadár & Elmar Klos, the SHOP on MAIN STREET/OBCHOD NA KORZE, 1966 125 Minutes
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February 24, 2009 (XVIII:7) Ján Kadár & Elmar Klos, THE SHOP ON MAIN STREET/OBCHOD NA KORZE, 1966 125 minutes Directed by Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos Produced by Jordan Balurov, Milos Broz, Jaromír Lukás Original Music by Zdenek Liska Cinematography by Vladimír Novotný Film Editing by Diana Heringova and Jaromír Janácek Written by Ladislav Grosman (screenplay), Ladislav Grosman (story), Ján Kadár (writer) and Elmar Klos (writer) Ida Kaminska...Rozalie Lautmann Jozef Króner...Antonin Brtko Hana Slivková...Evelyna Brtková Martin Hollý...Imro Kuchar Adám Matejka...Piti Báci Frantisek Zvarík...Marcus Kolkotsky Mikulas Ladizinsky...Marian Peter Martin Gregor...Jozef Katz, bárber Alojz Kramar...Balko, the bandmaster Gita Misurová...Andoricová Frantisek Papp...Andoric Shop on Main Street (1965), Obzalovany/Accused (1964), Smrt si Helena Zvaríková...Rose Kolkotsky rika Engelchen/Because We Don’t Forget (1963), Tri prání/Three Tibor Vadas...Tobacconist Wishes (1958), Tam na konecne/At the Terminus (1957), Únos Eugen Senaj...Blau, the Jewish relief treasurer (1953), Prazský hrad (1947), Dvakrát kaucuk (1946), Chvála révy Luise Grossová...Eliasova, Danko's mother (1941), Ctyri lidé, jedna rec (1939), Andrej Hlinka o sobe (1938), Historie fíkového listu (1938), Silnice zpivá (1937), and V dome Oscar, Best Foreign Language Film strasí duch (1937). Ján Kadár (April 1, 1918, Budapest, Austria-Hungary (now Ida Kaminska (September 4, 1899, Odessa, Russian Empire Hungary)— June 1, 1979, Los Angeles) has 19 directing credits, [now in Ukraine]— May 21, 1980, New York City) has 9 acting including: Freedom Road (1979), The Other Side of Hell (1978), credits:, The Angel Levine (1970), Czarna suknia (1967), Obchod The Blue Hotel (1977), Lies My Father Told Me (1975), The na korze/The Shop on Main Street (1965), Ulica Graniczna/ Angel Levine (1970), Touha zvaná Anada/Adrift (1969), Obchod Border Street (1948), On a heym/Without a Home (1939), Tkies na korze/The Shop on Main Street (1965), Obzalovany/Accused khaf/A Vilna Legend (1924), Zayn vaybs man (1916), Gots shtrof (1964), Smrt si rika Engelchen/Because We Don’t Forget (1963), (1913), Mirele Efros (1912. She received a best actress Oscar Tri prání/Three Wishes (1958), Tam na konecne/At the Terminus nomination for her work in The Shop on Main Street. (1957), Mladé dny/Days of Youth (1956), Spartakiáda (1956), Hudba z Marsu/Music From Mars (1955), Únos (1953), Jozef Króner (March 20, 1924, Staskov, Czechoslovakia Katka/Cathy (1949), Sú osobne zodpovední (1946), and Na (now Slovak Republic)— March 12, 1998, Bratislava, Slovakia) troskách vyrastá zivot/Life Is Rising from the Ruins (1945). has 49 acting credits, some of which are Ani smrt nebere/When You Ain’t Got Nothing (1996), Vásnivy polibek/A Passionate Kiss Elmar Klos (January 26, 1910, Brünn, Moravia, Austria-Hungary (1994), Árnyék a havon/Shadow on the Snow (1991), Lovec [now Brno, Czech Republic]— July 31, 1993, Prague, Czech senzací (1988), Die Jäger/Deadly Game (1982), Egymásra Republic) has 22 Directing Credits, some of which are Bizon nézve/Another Way (1982), Teketória/The Entanglement (1977), (1989), Touha zvaná Anada/Adrift (1969), Obchod na korze/The L’Homme qui ment/The Man Who Lies (1968), Muz, ktery stoupl v Kadár & Klos—THE SHOP ON MAIN STREET/OBCHOD NA KORZE—2 cene (1967), Obchod na korze/The Shop on Main Street (1965), Ztracenci/The Lost Children (1956), Cervený mak (1955), Frona Jánosík (1963), Polnocná omsa (1962), Posledná bosorka/The (1954), Nad námi svítá (1953), Velké dobrodruzství (1952), Malý Last Witch (1957), and Katka/Cathy (1949). partyzán (1950), Spalicek/The Czech Year (1947), and Vlast vítá (1945). Hana Slivková (August 21, 1923—January 3, 1984) haas 10 acting credits, some of which are: Ruzové sny/Rose Tinted Dreams (1976), Letokruhy/The Years of Life (1973), Génius/The Genius (1970), Slávnost v botanickej záhrade (1969), Tri dcéry/Three Daughters (1968), Cezar a detektivi (1967), Stud/Shame (1967), Volanie démonov (1967), Znamení raka (1967), Obchod na korze/The Shop on Main Street (1965). Martin Hollý (June 8, 1904, Moravská Ostrava, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia—October 1, 1965) has 19 directing and 6 acting credits. The acting credits are: Námestie svätej Alzbety (1966), Obchod na korze/The Shop on Main Street (1965), Trio Angelos (1963), Havrania cesta (1962), Bratia (1961), Jeste svatba nebyla (1954). Adám Matejka (November 21, 1905—April 21, 1988) has 10 acting credits, some of which are Terezu bych kvuli zádné holce neopustil/I Wouldn’t Leave Tereza for Any Other Girl (1976), Zlocin slecny Bacilpysky (1970), Noc nevesty/The Nun’s Night (1967), Obchod na korze/The Shop on Main Street (1965), Velká samota/The Great Solitude (1960), Szent Péter esernyöje/St. Peter’s Umbrella (1958), and Statocný zlodej (1958). Frantisek Zvarík (July 17, 1921, Vrútky by Martin, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia)— August 18, 2008, Bratislava, Slovakia), has 16 acting credits: Werther (1986), Kára plná bolesti (1985), Poéma o svedomí I-II/An Epic About Conscience I- II (1978), “Spadla z oblakov”/“She Came Out of the Blue Sky” (1978), Súkromná vojna (1977), Cervené víno I-II (1976), Vel'ká noc a vel'ky den/Big Night and Big Day (1975), 322 (1969), Niet inej cesty (1968), Kulhavý dábel (1968), Vreckari/The Pickpockets (1967), Obchod na korze/The Shop on Main Street (1965), Posledná bosorka/The Last Witch (1957), Jurásek (1957), Certova stena/The Devil’s Wall (1949), Tri kamarádi (1947), and Varúj...!/Warning (1947). Jan Kadar & Elmar Klos, from World Film Directors, V. II. Edited by John Wakeman. The H. W. Wilson Company, NY, Mikulas Ladizinsky (October 13, 1923—May 3, 1987) has 14 1988. acting credits: Akli Miklós (1986), Cervené víno I-II (1976), Génius/The Genius (1970), Sladké hry minulého léta (1970), Jan Kadár (April 1, 1918 - June 1, 1979), Czech director and Michael Kohlhaas - Der Rebell/Man on Horseback (1969), 322 scenarist, made his most notable films in collaboration with Elmar (1969), Vtackovia, siroty a blazni/Birds, Orphans and Fools Klos (January 26, 1910 - July 19 or 31, 1993), Czech director, (1969), Niet inej cesty (1968), Drak sa vracia/The Return of the scenarist and administrator. Klos was born at Brno and studied Dragon (1968), Marosko (1968), Stopy na Sitne (1968), Zbehovia law at Charles University in Prague. He started his movie career a pútnici/The Deserter and the Nomads (1968), Sedm havranu in the late 1920s, when he collaborated with his scriptwriter uncle (1967), and Obchod na korze/The Shop on Main Street (1965). on several pictures and took a few minor acting roles. Some accounts suggest that as a young man he was briefly in Vladimír Novotný (October 14, 1914, Tabor, Bohemia, Austria- Hollywood. In the 1930s, when the Czech film industry was the Hungary—April 14, 1997, Prague, Czechoslavakia) has 23 liveliest and most prolific in Eastern Europe, he helped to cinematography credits, some of which are Jak utopit doktora organize and run the documentary studios established in Zlin Mrácka aneb Konec vodniku v Cechách/How to Drown Dr. M. or (now Gottwaldov) by the Bata shoe company, which had its the End of Water Spirits in Bohemia (1974), Tri chlapi na cestách headquarters there. (1973), Dívka na kosteti/The Girl on the Broomstick (1972), À During World War II and the German occupation Klos quelques jours près/A Matter of Days (1969), Touha zvaná and Oscar Vávra led the group that prepared secret plans for the Anada/Adrift (1969), Happy End (1966), Obchod na korze/The postwar nationalization of the Czech cinema, and in 1945 Klos Shop on Main Street (1965), Limonádový Joe aneb Konská became one of its chief administrators. In 1946-1947 he served as opera/Lemonade Joe (1964), Pohled do ocí (1961), Muz z prvního head of the short films studio at Bratislava in Slovakia before století/Man in Outer Space (1961), Probuzení/Awakening (1960), shifting to the famous Barrandov feature film studios in Prague as Kadár & Klos—THE SHOP ON MAIN STREET/OBCHOD NA KORZE—3 head of the creative art staff. He himself wrote a number of scripts flash of more than just propagandist truth, maybe a glimpse of art. there, including the notable psychological drama Dead Among the The collaboration of Vlatislav Blazek on the scenario may have Living, directed by Borivoj Zeman. contributed to the success, or the presence of a charming new actress, Bozena Obravá. Anyway, the fact remains that the film was one of the few products of the early socialist-realist school which did not makes one’s hands ache.” Unfortunately, by the time Katka was released, the authorities had reversed an earlier policy—they now frowned on agricultural workers moving into the industrial cities, and consequently frowned on Katka as well. Kadár was recalled to Barrandov, where his next film was his first collaboration with Klos, Únos (The Highjacking/Kidnap,1952), for which the two men are credited as joint directors and joint scenarists (with another writer). It tells the story of the highjacking of a Czechoslovak plane to West Germany, where its innocent passengers are offered inducements and even blackmailed by German and American officials to betray their country and stay in the West. Only one of the Czechs succumbs—a zoot-suited young man with a trumpet who is seduced by the sound of an American swing band playing in a nearby restaurant. This cold-war movie is described by Skvorecky as “one of those shallow and malicious films where the authors pretend that everything in the world is either black or white, or that anyone who for any reason opposed anything that was going on in Czechoslovakia at that time...was a traitor.” Having tripped over the shifting party line with Katka, Kadár had presumably hoped to earn forgiveness with Únos; for some mysterious reason, however, his second feature was accused of “Bourgeois objectivism”—until it found a champion in the great Soviet director Vselovod Pudovkin, whereupon the Czech authorities changed their tack and gave it a state prize.