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The Shop on Main Street

1965Directed by Ján Kadár, Elmar KlosCzechoslovakia128 min

The Shop on Main Street (Czech/Slovak: Obchod na korze; in the UK The Shop on the High Street) is a 1965 Czechoslovak film about the Aryanization program during World War II in the Slovak Republic. The film was written by Ladislav Grosman and directed by Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos.…

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