The Pawnbroker (1964) 7.7
A Jewish pawnbroker, victim of Nazi persecution, loses all faith in his fellow man until he realizes too late the tragedy of his actions. Director:Sidney Lumet |
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The Pawnbroker (1964) 7.7
A Jewish pawnbroker, victim of Nazi persecution, loses all faith in his fellow man until he realizes too late the tragedy of his actions. Director:Sidney Lumet |
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Jaime Sánchez | ... |
Jesus Ortiz
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Thelma Oliver | ... |
Ortiz' Girl
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Marketa Kimbrell | ... |
Tessie
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Baruch Lumet | ... |
Mendel
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Juano Hernandez | ... |
Mr. Smith
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Linda Geiser | ... |
Ruth
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Nancy R. Pollock | ... |
Bertha
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Raymond St. Jacques | ... |
Tangee
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John McCurry | ... |
Buck
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Ed Morehouse | ... |
Robinson
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Eusebia Cosme | ... |
Mrs. Ortiz
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Warren Finnerty | ... |
Savarese
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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. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
A very impressive and dramatic movie. I remember when I saw the first time this movie as a young teenager, I was deeply impressed by it, and after many years it still one of the movie that are important to me. The thing that hit me in the movie is the wire between the violence in the streets of the city and the violence in the Nazist concentration camp. It's the story without any hope of a survivor, a dead man walking, living an impossible life in the violent modern society. It has been the first movie that I saw about other movies about the Holocaust and still Ithink it's one of the more impressive about this argument. I saw many movies about the Holocaust, ma no one treats as this, the difficult life of survivors who lost their family.