"Shop on Main Street" - a film for everyone... but tin - Victor Khomenko

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"Shop on Main Street" - a film for everyone... but tin

Yep... buddy tin... yet another Holocaust movie.
This one is set in Slovakia, 1942, and the rest... well, you know it all already, you saw the The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, and you have seen one time Jews being rounded up for deportation... Italy... Poland... Slovakia... makes no difference - you have seen them all.
The Shop on Main Street is a powerful film. Not in its perfection - far from it. Here and there you will wish the director did something different, but before you do too much of it, realize this is the 1965 Czechoslovakia, and the Soviets are rulling, so there is that cannon ball tied to the director's leg.
There is a brief but powerful moment in the film. As Jews are being rounded up, suddenly a word comes out of mad lady's mouth... "pogrom"... That simple word tells long story - the story where the horror keeps repeating itself seemingly endlessly... like two thousand years before, and who knows how many years still to come. Pogrom in any language is pogrom - isn't that one tortured contribution to world culture?
It is easy to recommend this film. There is long string of small psychological gems, like the swirl of mini-stories, all linked by a common theme. The characters have depth, and the two main ones are played convincingly.
Not an easy viewing, but something that is as an important part of upbringing as reading.

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