The shop on main street (1965) (Criterion Collection)

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Antonin Tono Brtko is a poor carpenter appointed by his Nazi brother-in-law to be "Aryan controller" of an old Jewish widow s sewing shop in a Nazi-occupied Slovakian town in 1942. The widow, Rozalie is near deaf, isolated and partially sighted. Barely even registering there is a war going on, she fails to fully realize the implications of the context in which she lives. Believing Tono is simply her new assistant, the two develop a tentative friendship that sees him maintaining that fiction as he attempts to protect her from the encroaching Nazi horror.