One of the earliest tremors in the prolonged late-Sixties rumble of Czechoslovakian filmmaking. It's sufficiently plain-spoken and maudlin in its handling of human comedy, of human tragedy, of irony, of fantasy, that it walked off with the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. Ida Kaminska portrays the old Jewish shopkeeper under Nazi occupation with boundless grandmotherly lovableness, and with two lumps of sugar. Directed by Jan Kadar and Elmar Klos. (1965) — Duncan Shepherd
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