The Shop on Main Street

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The Shop on Main Street

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Post by wm » 13 Aug 2014, 01:12

The Oscar-winning, highest-rated film in the history of Czechoslovak cinema.
A lazy Slovak carpenter, a Jewish widow, and the Holocaust.
In the spirit of international cooperation written by a Slovak Jew, directed by a Hungarian Jew, starring a Polish Jew.

At the time of the filming, the main actress Ida Kamińska (Rozália Lautmannová) was the head of the Jewish National Theater of Poland, and was considered one of the greatest Jewish stage actress of all time - Grande Dame of the Yiddish Theater.
Her mother Esther, was known as the mother of the Yiddish stage.
Today that theater is called the Ester Rachel Kamińska and Ida Kamińska State Jewish Theater.
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Closely Watched Trains

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Post by wm » 14 Aug 2014, 21:29

Another Czechoslovak Oscar-winning film.
Primal sex, laughing beasts, and an ammunition train.
The film is based on a novel written by Bohumil Hrabal, one of the greatest Czech writers of the 20th century. During the WW2 he worked as a railway laborer and dispatcher in Kostomlaty nad Labem.
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Re: The Shop on Main Street

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Post by wm » 18 Aug 2014, 19:34

Another Czechoslovak masterpiece, the disturbing, 1964 film Diamonds of the Night - full of delusions, fantasies, and flashbacks.
Two Jewish boys on the run from an inter-concentration camp transport train.


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Re: The Shop on Main Street

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Post by wm » 21 Aug 2014, 09:37

This time it's the father of all Czechoslovak disturbing movies: The Cremator.
The Munich Betrayal, a drop of German blood, and madness.

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