Awake and Sing! (1972)
Starring Walter Matthau, Ron Rifkin, Felicia Farr
Directed by Norman Lloyd,Robert Hopkins
The Bergers, a blue-collar Jewish family living in an overstuffed tenement and undone by the Depression, struggle through hard times and dream of a better future in this 1972 production of Clifford Odets' pungent play. Personalities and politics clash as Odets' mélange of characters try to survive on pennies a day. Walter Matthau plays cynical World War I amputee Moe Axelrod, and Leo Fuchs portrays the family's iron-willed leftist grandfather.
Runtime: 95 min.
DVD
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America
Genres: Drama
Keywords: new york city,world war i,jew / jewish,great depression
Cast
Moe Axelrod
Sam Feinschreiber
Hennie
Uncle Morty
Jacob
Ralph Berger
Schlosser
Bessie Berger