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The Pawnbroker
Dir.: Sidney Lumet | 114 minutes

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The legendary musical arranger, orchestrator, producer, and composer Quincy Jones decided in the mid-1960s to write music for films. Already in this work, the first in a long series of films, Quincy managed to integrate jazz into the soundtrack of the film in a way that shattered quite a few stigmas and boundaries, and thus turned the musical style, which until then was mainly associated with sex and crimes of various kinds, into a style that can enfold any drama, even one about a Holocaust survivor.

USA 1964 | 114 minutes | English | Hebrew subtitles

Sol Nazerman, a Jewish pawnbroker in Harlem, lives with haunting memories of the Holocaust. An important and engrossing film shot on location in N.Y.C.