Obchod na korze

The first Czech movie to have won the Academy Award ("Oscar") in the Best Foreign Language Film category. Its story, set in a small town in Slovakia during World War II, where Nazis and their local stooges divide up Jewish property, offers a sensitive study of human character in an extreme situation. The impact of the drama´s tragi-comic, its ostentation-free message is enhanced by the impeccable performance of its two protagonists - Ida Kaminska as an old Jewish widow, and Jozef Króner as pliant and frightened, yet inherently warm-hearted executor of the Nazi-enforced Aryan (expropriation) decrees.

Year Of Production: 1965
Running time: 121 minutes
Produced by: Film Studios Barrandov
Genre: war drama
Language Versions: Slovak
Directed By: Ján Kadár, Elmar Klos
Screenplay: Ján Kadár, Elmar Klos
Awards and nominations:
1965 Cannes Film Festival ? Special Mention for acting performances-Ida Kaminska and Jozef Kroner; 1966 Academy Awards ? Best Foreign Language Film; 1966 New York Film Critics Circle Awards ? Best Foreign Language Film; 1967 Academy Awards ? Ida Kaminska nominated for Best Actress 1967 Golden Globes ? Ida Kaminska nominated for Best Actress 1968 Pilsen Film Festival, Czech Republic ? Most Popular Film