The Pawnbroker (1965)

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Directed by

Sidney Lumet

Starring (View all)

Rod Steiger
Sol Nazerman

Geraldine Fitzgerald
Marilyn Birchfield

Brock Peters
Rodriguez

Jaime Sánchez
Jesus Ortiz

Juano Hernandez
Mr. Smith

Linda Geiser
Ruth Nazerman

Nancy R. Pollock
Bertha

Raymond St. Jacques
Tangee

Written by

David Friedkin
(screenplay)

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Description: In a poor neighborhood of New York, the bitter and lonely Jewish pawnbroker Sol Nazerman is a survivor from Auschwitz that has no emotions or feelings. Sol lost his dearest family and friends in the war and his faith in God and belief in mankind. Now he only cares for money and is haunted by daydreams, actually flashbacks from the period of the concentration camp. Sol's assistant is the ambitious Latino Jesus Ortiz, who wants to learn with Sol how to run a business of his own. When Sol realizes that the obscure laundry business he has with the powerful gangster Rodriguez comes also from brothels, Sol recalls the fate of his belo ... (more)

Release date: 20 April 1965
UPC: 017153145878

Tags: Drama (4), 1960s (4), WWII (3), Nazis (3), Torture (2), Holocaust (2), 1964 (2), Concentration Camp (2), Nazi (1), 1965 (1), World War II (1), Melodrama (1)

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"THE CLASSICS YOU SHOULD HAVE SEEN BY NOW Rod Steiger Before there was a pandering industry for Jewish-themed movies, there was The Pawnbroker. Before B-list actors won Oscars for weak portrayals of Holocaust survivors and perpetrators, there was The Pawnbroker. And before PTSD became a household discussion due to Iraq and Afghanistan, there was The Pawnbroker. Director Sidney Lumet’s (1964) black and white examination of the agony of surviving the concentration camp became an instant classic a"