The Shop Around the Corner

The Shop Around the Corner

by Ernst Lubitsch

In Budapest, in the shop of the unfriendly Mr. Matuschek work Flora, Ilona, Pepi, Vadas, the old Pirovich and Alfred Kralik, the most important shop assistant. One day, Klara Novak enters the shop and gets a job because she manages to sell an item which was considered unsellable. Alfred reveals to Pirovich that he has a pen-girlfriend he has never met in person. When he finds out that the mysterious pen-friend is Klara, he decides not to reveal himself.At Christmas'Eve, after everybody leave the shop, Alfred and Klara are left alone...

Country: USA
Year: 1940
Running time: 97’
Genre: fiction
Screenplay: Samson Raphelson, Ben Hecht
Cinematography: William Daniels
Editing: Gene Ruggiero
Music: Werner R. Heymann
With: Margaret Sullavan (Klara Novak), James Stewart (Alfred Kralik), Frank Morgan (Matuschek)
Produced by: Ernst Lubitsch per Metro Goldwyn Mayer
Distribution: Lab 80 film