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Icy cold but so heart-warming, this funny study of three generations of a family brings out our best feelings as we partake in the liberation of a sixty-seven-year-old widow as she finally manages to shake off the influence of her selfish sons in order to begin a new life.

When Hana, played by the well-loved actress, Zuzana Kronerova, finds a group of eccentric ice swimmers, a new world opens to her and her grandson who is facing bullying at school and self-occupied parents at home.

Is there an age limit to changing your life? Are you ever too old or too young?And once you decide to go ahead with it, your nearest and dearests’ reactions, especially their efforts dissuade in order to protect their own fragile balance in life become apparent in Bohdan Sláma’s new tragicomedy in which a sixty-seven-year-old widow finally manages to shake off the influence...

★★★★★ The creeping grip of fascism has been a regular source of inspiration for filmmakers for decades, both in explicit reference to the Second World War and in more nuanced portrayals of corruptive ideology. It could be argued that the current political climate, across Europe and in the USA, illustrates with alarming perspicuity the continued urgency of such work. In a world of condoned bigotry and the rise of right wing groups, the slippery slope of quiet acceptance that ensnares Tóno (Josef Kroner) in Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos' The Shop on the High Street is of lamentable but undeniably pertinence.

Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos’s 1965 film The Shop on Main Street, which was the first film from Eastern Europe to win an Academy Award, celebrates it’s 50th anniversary this year. The Laemmle Town Center 5 in Encino, CA will be holding a special one-night-only showing of the 128-minute drama on Tuesday, June 9, 2015 at 7:30 pm. Scheduled to appear in person are film director Ivan Passer and Michal Sedlacek, Consul General of Czech Republic in Los Angeles.

From the press release:

The Shop On Main Street (1965) was the first film from Eastern Europe ever to win an Academy Award. Fifty years ago this powerful Czech drama won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language film. Directed by Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos, it was one of the key films in the Czech New Wave that flourished in the 1960s, before the Soviet invasion of 1968 stamped out this vital movement. Josef Kroner...