The Shop on Main Street Quotes

  • Antonin Brtko: I'm your Aryan and you're my Jewess . . . understand?

  • Antonin Brtko: What can I do? What? I'm nobody. A zero.

  • Imro Kuchar: When the laws go against innocent people - that's the end! The end of those who passed them.

  • Rozalia Lautmannová: We all have our sorrows. We all know the past - and no one knows the future.

  • Antonin Brtko: To hell with Markus.

    Eliasová: Would it hurt to greet them? Would your tongue fall out?

    Antonin Brtko: I'm not a parrot.

    Eliasová: Would your arm drop off if you saluted them?

    Antonin Brtko: At your service, madam!

  • Imro Kuchar: Why are you running away? Afraid of your own brother-in-law?

    Antonin Brtko: He can go to hell!

    Imro Kuchar: Well, he may go soon. Our little Führer's gotten fat! It's all that fancy food and wine they get. He has the face of a bishop. The local god.

    Antonin Brtko: To me he's the same, a good-for-nothing scrounger, Mr. Commander!

  • Markus Kolkocký: Why aren't you drinking, Tóno? Drink, for the love of God!

  • Markus KolkockýRuzena KolkockáEvelyna Brtková: [singing] I blew my whistle, And dad squeezes mum, I blow my whistle, I'll squeeze you too...

  • Markus Kolkocký: Things are different these days. Poor martyred carpenter!

  • Markus Kolkocký: Have you heard of a cock that didn't crow at dawn?

    Antonin Brtko: No.

    Markus Kolkocký: That goes for us too, my friend!

  • Markus Kolkocký: If we don't get rich now, we never will. It's our duty to God and the Führer! It's our duty to the Republic.

  • Antonin Brtko: I dreamt of a white butterfly. It was completely white.

    Eliasová: A white butterfly, a white flag. Love thy neighbor. I've put out your white handkerchief.

  • Antonin Brtko: Mrs. Lautmann, let me explain. You're Jewish, aren't you? Well, I'm an Aryan. Jewish shops are finished. That's the law. There are only Aryan shops now. It's called "Aryanisation." Understand?

    Rozalia Lautmannová: No, I don't.

    Antonin Brtko: You don't. Here it is in black and white. I'm your Aryan and you are my Jewess. Understand?

    Rozalia Lautmannová: You've got a sense of humor, young man! Are you a bailiff?

    Antonin Brtko: No, I'm your Aryan controller.

  • Imro Kuchar: I'd call you a swine if I hadn't known you for so long. You're just a poor fool who's been swindled.

  • Antonin Brtko: Jesus, Mrs. Lautmann.

  • Markus Kolkocký: I'll have him arrested. Him and all the Jew-lovers!

    Antonin Brtko: A Jew-lover?

    Markus Kolkocký: A dirty Jew-lover, your Mr. Kuchár. We know all about him. We're keeping an eye on him. I'm warning you, stay away from him! A Jew-lover is worse than a regular Jew. He isn't one of them, but he's on their side.

    Antonin Brtko: Interesting.

    Markus Kolkocký: Interesting? You bloody fool. Dangerous! Remember that. They're dangerous, remember that!

  • Rozalia Lautmannová: [in Tóno's dream] Fear is the root of all evil. Once we no longer live in fear of each other... Do you hear the bells?

  • Rozalia Lautmannová: [in Tóno's dream] A peaceful heart is a gift from God.

  • Rozalia Lautmannová: Am I going mad or has the world gone mad?

Extended Reading
  • Dewitt 2022-01-20 08:03:54

    The last thirty minutes are too tormented and upset, that kind of cowardice and helpless hatred of complex emotions, I really want to beat the male protagonist who is pacing in the store, and the long shot of the soul out of the body singing and dancing and hiding the camera in each room The passage of the tour is too extreme. The previous detailed description of the changes of ordinary Jewish town residents under the special policy of war. In the face of sudden Nazi laws, no one can escape. The old lady played really well. Restored version of the North Film Festival.

  • Karl 2022-03-14 14:12:28

    Combination of tragicomedy, a repentant soul. The end of surrealism is pinned on the sublimation of the ideals of that tragic age!