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?
16 September 1898, Warsaw, Poland, Russian Empire [now Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland]
13 May 1935, Köniz, Bern, Switzerland
8 March 1926, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2 July 1927, New York City, New York, USA
1 March 1930, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
1941, Los Angeles, California, USA
21 April 1947, USA
24 November 1913, Greystones, County Wicklow, Ireland
1 August 1928, Prague, Czechoslovakia
11 September 1936, La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA
August 22, 1955 in New York City, New York, USA
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.
August 21, 2011
The film makes its point with narrative economy and emotional sophistication in a socially complex contemporary context.
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.
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.
