Word: nazi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PAWNBROKER. As an anguished old Jew caught between the remembered horrors of Nazi Germany and the deadly grind of life in Spanish Harlem, Rod Steiger illuminates one of the year's grimmest films with one of the year's grandest performances...
...YEARS, by Giinter Grass. The author's subject is again Nazi Germany, and he approaches it with obsessive fury. He uses savage humor and a seemingly limitless range of imagery to tell the story of two friends-one Jew, one Gentile-through the Nazi years, the war, and the sudden prosperity that followed...
Nazemann, as a result of a traumatic stay in a Nazi concentration camp, has been trying for twenty years to escape from his own emotions. But the necessity of interacting with other people in the city will not permit him his stoicism, and eventually he is forced to work through his traumatic past in the manner of a psychoanalysis and return to his human responsibilities...
...impact of the film. Nazemann is constantly seen behind the pawnbroker's cage dealing with his customers as through the prison fence. The cage also symbolizes his isolation, emphasized by Lumet's close-up shots of Nazemann locking himself in and out. Inside the cage he is the Nazi officer responding to human misery with utter callousness, the Jew playing persecutor. But when a destitute woman enters to sell her wedding ring, he cannot avoid his own memories, shown as flashbacks, of German soldiers tearing gold rings from the fingers of their victims...
...TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6.30 om) Rerun of a report on the No. 3 Nazi, Rudolf Hess, whose flight to Scotland on a one-man "peace' mission was one of the most bizarre episodes of World...