Shop on Main Street

Ján Kadár, Elmar Klos, 1964

Distribution data

Accessibility suitable for all ages

Distribution media

Medium Duration Subtitles
35 mm 121 min
DCP 128 min English
MP4 128 min English

About the film distribution

Slovak writer Ladislav Grosman wrote a novel entitled Trap [Past] which was published in 1962 in the Flame [Plamen] magazine. He then elaborated the prose into a literary script under the title The Shop on Main Street and into a book of the same title which was published by the Mladá fronta publishing house in Prague in 1965.
Read more

Do you want to screen this title?

Have more questions or want to order more films at once? Contact us.

Film data

About a film

Production year 1964
Countries Czechoslovakia
Categories film
Genres historical, tragicomedy, war
Form feature
Duration 121 min
Director Ján Kadár, Elmar Klos
Cast Ida Kamińska, Jozef Kroner, František Zvarík, Hana Slivková, Martin Hollý st.
Director of photography Vladimír Novotný
Screenplay Ladislav Grosman, Ján Kadár, Elmar Klos
Editor Jaromír Janáček
Production designer Karel Škvor
Music Zdeněk Liška
Sound designer Dobroslav Šrámek