The Pawnbroker

Year: 1964

Country: USA

Tagline: The Most Talked About Picture!

Plot: 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.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?

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