Awake and Sing! (1972)
Awake and Sing! (1972)
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.

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Walter Matthau Walter Matthau As: Moe Axelrod
Ron Rifkin Ron Rifkin As: Sam Feinschreiber
Felicia Farr Felicia Farr As: Hennie
Martin Ritt Martin Ritt As: Uncle Morty
Leo Fuchs Leo Fuchs As: Jacob
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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.


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Genres: Drama

Language: English

Release Date: 03 June 1972

Country: US

Runtime: 95m

Company Credits

Company: KCET, Broadway Theatre Archive

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Walter Matthau

Walter Matthau

Moe Axelrod

Ron Rifkin

Ron Rifkin

Sam Feinschreiber

Felicia Farr

Felicia Farr

Hennie

Martin Ritt

Martin Ritt

Uncle Morty

Leo Fuchs

Leo Fuchs

Jacob

Robert Lipton

Robert Lipton

Ralph Berger

John Myhers

John Myhers

Schlosser

Ruth Storey

Ruth Storey

Bessie Berger

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