This movie was shot exclusively in the small Slovak city of Sabinov.
This was Czechoslovakia's official submission to 38th Academy Award's Foreign Language in 1966.
(at around 1h 13 mins) Tono waiting outside his house, eerily presages the finale inside the shop.
The text on the monument "za boha zivot / za narod slobodou" roughly translates to "for God, life /for the nation, freedom"