| Brief Description: | A haunting work about the intersecting of the political and personal, developed through the strange yet touching relationship of an elderly Jewish shop owner and a passive carpenter whom the Nazis appoint as her "Aryan controller." Winner of the 1966 Best Foreign Film Oscar. With Ida Kaminska and Josef Kroner. "It manages to translate the apocalyptic tragedy of our century into human terms and to do so with laughter and tears, with scorn and passion" (Judith Crist). In Slovak with English subtitles.
Includes improved subtitle translation, optional subtitles, and U.S. theatrical trailer.
Jan Kadar/
Elmar Klos
Czechoslovakia
1965
128 mins. |
