The Pawnbroker is a 1965 drama film, starring Rod Steiger, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Brock Peters and Jaime Sánchez and directed by Sidney Lumet. It was adapted by Morton S. Fine and David Friedkin from the novel of the same name by Edward Lewis Wallant.
The film was the first American movie to deal with the Holocaust through from the viewpoint of a survivor. It earned international acclaim for Steiger, launching his career as an A-list actor, and wa...
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The Pawnbroker is a 1965 drama film, starring Rod Steiger, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Brock Peters and Jaime Sánchez and directed by Sidney Lumet. It was adapted by Morton S. Fine and David Friedkin from the novel of the same name by Edward Lewis Wallant.
The film was the first American movie to deal with the Holocaust through from the viewpoint of a survivor. It earned international acclaim for Steiger, launching his career as an A-list actor, and was among the first American movies to feature nudity during the Production Code and was the first film featuring bare breasts to receive Production Code approval.
In 2008, The Pawnbroker was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
With the rise of Hitler, Sol Nazerman (Steiger), a German-Jewish university professor, is dragged to a concentration camp along with his family. He sees his two children die and his wife raped by...
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