Ján KadárCast
Ida Kaminska Jozef Kroner František Zvarík Hana Slivková Martin Hollý Elena Zvaríková
Plot
In the Slovak town under the wartime fascist regime, a carpenter is made the 'Aryan controller' of an elderly Jewish widow's button shop and becomes her friend.
Sinekatalog’s take
A moving tragicomedy about complicity and humanity.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 8.2 / 10 (10,617 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.
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