Motel the Operator
19401h 28m10.0
Drama
- Runtime
- 1h 28m
- Genre
- Drama
- Origin
- United States of America
About
Motel, a poor laborer, loving husband and new father, leads cloakmakers in a strike for better working conditions. When he is severely injured by strikebreakers, his wife, Esther, and infant son are left destitute. Desperate to save her starving child, Esther gives him up for adoption to a wealthy couple, and then commits suicide. The richly-rendered beautiful Yiddish songs by Sholem Secunda featuring Cantor Leibele Waldman and Joel Feig's famous choir are a good example of the bittersweet melodrama in the finest tradition of the Yiddish theater.
Where to watch
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Details
- Director
- Joseph Seiden
- Status
- Released
- Released
- Jan 15, 1940
- Studio
- Cinema Service Corp.
Cast
Chaim Tauber
Motel Friedman
Malvina Rappel
Esther Friedman
Maurice Kroner
Benjamin Rosenwald
Berthe Hart
Rebecca Rosenwald
Seymour Rechtzeit
Jack Rosenwald
Jacob Zanger
Jacob 'Joseph' Frumkin
Yetta Zwerling
Chane Belle 'Annabella' Frumkin
Gertrude Krause
Ruth Frumkin
Herman Rosen
Doctor
Izidor Frankel
Boss
Seymour Rechzeit
Jacob 'Jack' Rosenwald
Maurice Krohner
Benjamin Rosenwald
Joseph Schoengold
Louis 'Leibele' Waldman
The Cantor
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