Awake and Sing
Kultur (1972)
Drama
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032031260290
IMDB   7.4
1 hr 41 mins USA / English
DVD  Region 1   NR
Walter Matthau Moe Axelrod
Ron Rifkin Sam Feinschreiber
Felicia Farr Hennie
Ruth Storey Bessie
Martin Ritt Uncle Morty
John Myhers Schlosser
Milton Selzer Myron
Leo Fuchs Jacob
Robert Lipton Ralph
Director
Norman Llyod
Robert Hopkins
Norman Lloyd
Producer Norman Llyod
Norman Lloyd
Writer Clifford Odets

The New York Times has deemed this extraordinary collection to be "the crown jewels of public and network television>"

Walter Matthau heads the cast of this television re-creation of Clifford Odets' 1935 hit Broadway play- the first-full-length work performed on the commercial stage by the legendary Group Theatre. This portrait of a Jewish family in a Bronx tenement perfectly captures the spirit of the Depression years, and is suffused with details of character and place that combine to be affecting even now. The Bergers, burdened by financial difficulties, have taken in a boarder- Moe Axelrod (Matthau)- who lost his leg in World War I. Cynical and outspoken, Moe adds a spark to the somewhat accepting lives of the Bergers. The family fights to survive on sixteen dollars a week while the intellectual, Marxist-leaning grandfather (brilliantly played by famed Yiddish star, Leo Fuchs) tries futilely to spur his family to action with the injunction, "Awake and sing, ye that dwell in the dust." (Isaiah 26:19)
Edition Details
Edition Broadway Theatre Archive
Distributor Kultur Video
Chapters 6
Release Date 4/30/2002
Packaging Keep Case
Screen Ratio Standard 1.33:1 Color
Audio Tracks ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Stereo
Layers Single Side, Single Layer
No. of Disks/Tapes 1

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