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Shop On Main Street, The (1965)
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An inept Czech peasant is torn between greed and guilt when the Nazi-backed bosses of his town appoint him "Aryan controller" of an old Jewish widow's button shop.Humor and tragedy fuse in this scathing exploration of one cowardly man's complicity in the horrors of a totalitarian regime.Made near the height of Soviet oppression in the former Czechoslovakia, this film features intense editing and camera work which won the Academy Award
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