Broke (2009)

1h 17m
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April 30, 2009
Release Date

Broke (2009)

1h 17m
Running Time

April 30, 2009
Release Date

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Set in a pawnshop, this cinéma vérité masterpiece tells the story of the unlikely friendship between a cynic pawnbroker and his sweet but psychopathic assistant. "Broke" is a complex, powerful cinéma vérité account of day-to-day life in a pawnshop. The documentary gives us an intimate glimpse into a world most of us luckily do not have to know. Although often as funny and surprising as a sitcom, it bluntly points to the hardships and desperation of the marginalized. As the pawnbroker states: "You don't see it in your rarefied living conditions, you don't see how the poor people live, unless you come here. Tragic, some of it."

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Release Date
April 30, 2009

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1h 17m

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Broke is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Rosvita Dransfeld and released in 2009. The film centres on the friendship between David Woolfson, a pawn shop owner in Edmonton, Alberta, and Chris Hoard, an ex-convict who volunteers as an assistant to Woolfson in the shop.

The film premiered at the 2009 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, and was screened at the 2009 Vancouver International Film Festival and the 2009 Global Visions Film Festival, before having its television premiere on March 3, 2010 as an episode of TVOntario's documentary series The View from Here.

The film won the Donald Brittain Award for Best Social or Political Documentary Program at the 25th Gemini Awards in 2010.

Hoard was again featured in Dransfeld's 2014 film Anti-Social Limited, which was a Donald Brittain Award nominee at the 4th Canadian Screen Awards in 2016.

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