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The Pawnbroker is a 1964 American drama film directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Rod Steiger, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Brock Peters, Jaime Sánchez and Morgan Freeman in his feature film debut. The screenplay was an adaptation by Morton S. Fine and David Friedkin from the novel of the same name by Edward Lewis Wallant .
A Jewish pawnbroker, traumatized by Nazi persecution, loses his faith in humanity and his business. IMDb provides cast and crew information, user and critic reviews, trivia, goofs, quotes, and more for this Oscar-nominated film.
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The Pawnbroker (1961) is a novel by Edward Lewis Wallant which tells the story of Sol Nazerman, a concentration camp survivor who suffers flashbacks of his past Nazi imprisonment as he tries to cope with his daily life operating a pawn shop in East Harlem.
Mar 24, 2022 · The original trailer of The Pawnbroker directed by Sidney Lumet with Rod Steiger, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Brock Peters and Jaime Sanchez
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Based on the novel by Edward Lewis Wallant, this drama focuses on former professor Sol Nazerman (Rod Steiger), the survivor of a German concentration camp who now...
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- Rod Steiger
- Sidney Lumet
- Drama
A Jewish pawnbroker, a survivor of Nazi persecution, struggles with his emotions and faith in humanity in New York. The film explores his flashbacks, his business, his relationships, and his conflicts in the context of the ghetto and the war.
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The Pawnbroker, American film drama, released in 1965, about the life of a Holocaust survivor. It shocked audiences with its subject matter and scenes of partial nudity. Rod Steiger played Sol Nazerman, a cynical, introverted concentration camp survivor who is now emotionally dead and who ekes out.
