“Beautifully restored” The Shop on Main Street premieres at Karlovy Vary

A major event for lovers of Czechoslovak cinema at this year’s Karlovy
Vary film festival has been the world premiere of a digitally restored
version of The Shop on Main Street. A portrait of the Aryanisation process
in the wartime Slovak state, the 1965 masterpiece earned Ján Kadár and
Elmar Klos the country’s first Oscar. On the delegation for the film was
Mehelli Modi of Second Run DVD, who previously brought it out on Blu-ray. I
asked him what made The Shop on Main Street a great movie.