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Jan 13, 2015akirakato rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
This is a 1965 Czechoslovak film about the Aryanization during World War II in the Slovak State. An inept Czech carpenter is torn between greed and guilt when his Nazi-affiliated brother-in-law appoint him "Aryan controller" of an old Jewish widow's button shop. Humor and tragedy come together in this scathing look into the cowardly man's mind in the horrors of a Nazi regime. The acting of Jozef Kroner as a good-for-nothing man is superb. It is a somewhat funny yet profoundly heart-wrenching tragedy.