Awake and Sing!
1972•1h 35m•10.0•Released
Drama
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.
Director
Robert Hopkins
Writer
Clifford Odets
Languages
English
Studio
KCET
Cast
Walter Matthau
Moe Axelrod
Ron Rifkin
Sam Feinschreiber
Felicia Farr
Hennie
Martin Ritt
Uncle Morty
Leo Fuchs
Jacob
Robert Lipton
Ralph Berger
John Myhers
Schlosser
Ruth Storey
Bessie Berger
Production
Company
KCET
Company
Broadway Theatre Archive
Producer
Norman Lloyd
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