Movie Description:
An inept Czech peasant is torn between greed and guiltwhen the Nazi- backed bosses of his town appointed him "Aryan controller" of an old Jewishwidow`s button shop. Humor and tragedy fuse in this scathing exploration of onecowardly man`s complicity in the horrorsof a totalitarian regime. Made near theheight of Soviet oppression in Czechoslovakia, this film features intense editingand camera work which won it the Academy Award for BestForeign Film in 1965.
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