Awake and Sing!

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.

Country:

United States of America

Genre:

Drama

Duration:

95 minutes

Year:

1972

Director:

Robert Hopkins

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Company:

KCET,

Broadway Theatre Archive

Cast:

Moe Axelrod

Sam Feinschreiber

Hennie

Uncle Morty

Jacob

Crew:

Director

Director

Writer

Producer

Casting