The Shop Around the Corner

El bazar de las sorpresas

English audio · Current release

During the Great Depression, Alfred Kralik is the top salesman at Matuschek and Company, a leathergoods shop in Budapest owned by the high-strung Mr. Hugo Matuschek. Kralik's co-workers include his friend, Pirovitch, a kindly family man; Ferencz Vadas, a two-faced womanizer; saleswoman Ilona Novotny; clerk Flora Kaczek; and Pepi Katona, an ambitious, precocious delivery boy.

Director

Ernst Lubitsch

Starring

Ernst Lubitsch, Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Frank Morgan, Joseph Schildkraut

Why we call it English: mk2 credits Ernst Lubitsch; US production, English-language (1940)