Ladislav Grosman
Slovak novelist and screenwriter (1921–1981)
Ladislav Grosman was a Slovak novelist and screenwriter. He is best known for being the author of The Shop on Main Street, which he adapted into a critically acclaimed Academy Award-winning film in 1965. Grosman became proficient in Czech after he moved to Czechoslovakia's Czech-speaking part in his late twenties, where he worked as a correspondent and editor in the Prague bureau of the Slovak newspaper Pravda. Following the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, he moved to Israel, where he died in 1981.
Filmography in the catalog
Credited on 1 film (1965) — matched by name in the Creator or Credits field.
| Year ▼ | Title | Creator | Length | Format | Color | Sound |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1965 | Obchod na korze | = Shop on main street / Barrandov Film Studio for Československý Film ; presented by Marie Desmarais, Eurofilm Ltd. ; head of production, Ladislav Hanuš ; screenplay by Ladislav Grosman, Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos ; directed by Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos. | 128 | 16mm | B&W | sound |