The Pawnbroker
The Pawnbroker

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- 77/100 based on 10,299 votes
  • Released: 1965
  • Runtime: 116 mins
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  • Studio: Allied Artists Pictures
  • Genres: Drama

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... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in The Pawnbroker:

Rod Steiger
Geraldine Fitzgerald
Brock Peters
Jaime Sánchez
Thelma Oliver
Marketa Kimbrell

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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 beloved wife in the concentration camp and has a nervous breakdown. His attitude leads Jesus Ortiz to tragedy and Sol finds a way to cry.

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All Movie Guide - 10/10 by Dan JardineDramatizes the psychological impact of the Nazi concentration camps, while drawing parallels to contemporary conditions of New York City ghetto life
The Dissolve - 9/10 by Nathan RabinSidney Lumet’s uncomfortably intense adaptation of Edward Lewis Wallant’s novel gets inside Nazerman’s skin and lets the audience see the world as he does: as unspeakably vulgar, corrupt, and oppressive, a nightmare from which he cannot wake up.
The New York Times - 9/10 by Bosley CrowtherRemarkable...[a] most uncommon film, which projects a disagreeable subject with power and cogency.
Austin Chronicle - 9/10 by Trae StanleyVisually, Lumet's use of gritty black-and-white realism to locate the story is also powerful.
EmanuelLevy.Com - 8/10 by Emanuel LevyOne 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.
Ozus' World Movie Reviews - 8/10 by Dennis SchwartzAn unpleasant, solemn and overwrought melodrama about an embittered Jewish Holocaust survivor still haunted by his stay in Auschwitz.
Los Angeles Times - 8/10 by Michael WilmingtonThere is little plot in the regular sense, but a series of episodes spanning just a few days of the present, which recall many harrowing experiences of the past. Some are absorbing, but others seem to lack the dramatic punch for which the director must have strived.
Old School Reviews - 7/10 by John A. Nesbitcreates some haunting images and gives Rod Steiger a chance to blossom
The Observer (UK) - 7/10 by Philip FrenchAn uneasy mixture of European art movie (the Resnais-like flashbacks that punctuate the narrative) and American ciné-vérité (it was shot on the streets of New York), The Pawnbroker never achieves the intensity its subject matter threatens.
Chicago Reader - 6/10 by Jonathan RosenbaumAn ambitious but pretentious adaptation of Edward Lewis Wallant's novel by David Friedkin and Morton Fine, directed by Sidney Lumet.

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