Film
The Pawnbroker
- 7PM
In this brilliant adaptation of Edward Lewis Wallant's novel, Sol (Rod Steiger), the embittered survivor of a Nazi death camp, is now a Harlem pawnbroker unable to adjust to normal life in New York City. Carrying the weight of his people's extermination in his walk, he condemns his clientele’s everyday complicities in evil and flashes involuntarily between his daily life in New York and his time in the camps. In building a cinematic vocabulary for trauma, director Sidney Lumet—an Actors Studio founding member—elicited the best of Strasberg’s Method in Steiger’s emotionally repressed, Oscar-nominated performance.
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