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Awake and Sing!
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.
Cast
- Walter Matthau as Moe Axelrod
- Ron Rifkin as Sam Feinschreiber
- Felicia Farr as Hennie
- Martin Ritt as Uncle Morty
- Leo Fuchs as Jacob
- Robert Lipton as Ralph Berger
- John Myhers as Schlosser
- Ruth Storey as Bessie Berger
Details
- Director
- Robert Hopkins and Norman Lloyd
- Released
- March 6, 1972
- Runtime
- 1h 35m
- Genres
- Drama
- Studio
- KCET and Broadway Theatre Archive
- Status
- Released
- TMDB score
- 10.0 / 10 from 1 votes
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