Storyline

Fascist Slovakia during WW2. Tono lives a poor life, but the authorities offer him to take over the Jewish widow Lautman's little shop for sewing material. She is old and confused and thinks that he is only looking for employment and hires him. The odd couple begin to like each other. But some time later the authorities decide that the Jews must leave the city. What should he do with the old lady?—Mattias Thuresson

Plot Keywords

based on novel, nazi officer, nazi, nest, painter, perfume, pigeon, railway, record player, rope, singing, face slap, soup, medicine, iron, world war two, 1940s, barber, billiards, bird

Short Review

The Shop on High Street has modest but solid virtues. It treats seriously -- that is, with a quiet realism that doesn't exclude humor -- a theme I can't recall having been attempted before except in documentaries.

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