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name: "Ladislav Grosman"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/ladislav-grosman"
fi1m_id: "ladislav-grosman"
imdb_id: "nm0343309"
tmdb_id: 1290920
wikidata_id: "Q3500198"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "4 February 1921"
died: "25 January 1981"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T15:45:17.846834+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Ladislav Grosman

## Identity

Ladislav Grosman

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/ladislav-grosman
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** ladislav-grosman
- **IMDb ID:** nm0343309
- **TMDB ID:** 1290920
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3500198
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladislav_Grosman, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3500198, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0343309/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1290920

Writer. Born 4 February 1921 in Humenné. Died 25 January 1981.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 4 February 1921, Humenné
- **Died:** 25 January 1981
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladislav_Grosman, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3500198, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0343309/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1290920

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*The Shop on Main Street*](https://film.one/film/the-shop-on-main-street.md) (90)

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## Biography

Ladislav Grosman (1921–1981) was a Slovak novelist and screenwriter. He is best known as the author of the novella *The Shop on Main Street* (*Obchod na korze*), which he adapted into the screenplay for the 1965 film of the same name, directed by Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos. The film, which depicts Jewish life in Slovakia during the Second World War, won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

Born in Humenné, Grosman published an earlier short story, 'The Trap', in 1962 that formed the basis for the novella and screenplay. He collaborated with the directors on the shooting script. After emigrating to Israel in 1968, he taught Slavic literature and creative writing at Bar-Ilan University near Tel Aviv, later becoming a full professor, and also taught screenwriting at Tel Aviv University.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Shop on Main Street* (1965), Fi1m 90, Novel, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/the-shop-on-main-street.md)

## Complete filmography (1)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Shop on Main Street* (1965), Screenplay, Novel — Fi1m 90, [page](https://film.one/film/the-shop-on-main-street.md)

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© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/ladislav-grosman