274173
274173

Awake and Sing!

1972-06-03 en 95m
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

Director

Norman Lloyd

Writer

Clifford Odets

Producer

Norman Lloyd

Casting

Jane Murray

new york city world war i great depression filmed theater

Status

Released

Countries

  • United States of America

Companies

  • KCET
  • Broadway Theatre Archive