Motel the Operator

Jan 15, 1940

1h 28m

★ 0.0

Overview

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.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Cinema Service Corp.

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Cast

Motel Friedman

Chaim Tauber

Esther Friedman

Malvina Rappel

Benjamin Rosenwald

Maurice Kroner

Rebecca Rosenwald

Berthe Hart

Jack Rosenwald

Seymour Rechtzeit

Jacob 'Joseph' Frumkin

Jacob Zanger

Chane Belle 'Annabella' Frumkin

Yetta Zwerling

Ruth Frumkin

Gertrude Krause

Doctor

Herman Rosen

Boss

Izidor Frankel

Jacob 'Jack' Rosenwald

Seymour Rechzeit

Benjamin Rosenwald

Maurice Krohner

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