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The Pawnbroker
The film goes inside the life of Sol Nazerman is a survivor from Nazi persecution undergoes terrible days by din of losing his family and friends in the war. He seems to be desperate of the truth and always be obsessed by daydreams from the horrible period in the past. Ultimately, Does he realize the tragedy of his actions?
18 October 1928, Anderson, South Carolina, USA
9 April 1925, Brooklyn, New York, USA
1 August 1928, Prague, Czechoslovakia
19 December 1938, Rincon, Puerto Rico
8 March 1926, San Juan, Puerto Rico
21 May 1912, New York City, New York, USA
1 March 1930, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
11 September 1936, La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA
13 May 1935, Köniz, Bern, Switzerland
1911, Santiago, Cuba
August 22, 1955 in New York City, New York, USA
June 27, 2002
Dramatizes the psychological impact of the Nazi concentration camps, while drawing parallels to contemporary conditions of New York City ghetto life
April 28, 2011
An unpleasant, solemn and overwrought melodrama about an embittered Jewish Holocaust survivor still haunted by his stay in Auschwitz.
August 21, 2011
The film makes its point with narrative economy and emotional sophistication in a socially complex contemporary context.
July 01, 2011
creates some haunting images and gives Rod Steiger a chance to blossom
June 30, 2007
One of the first Hollywood films to deal with the Holocaust, The Pawnbroker is thematically and stylistically innovative, borrowing some of its devices from the French New Wave, such as brief flashbacks, stylized b/w imagery, and jazzy score.
April 21, 2014
The Pawnbroker is a paradoxically obsessed with death, yet roaring with life, a jazzy urban tragedy that sees shadows of the Holocaust in the suffering and exploitation of the dead-eyed souls of East Harlem.