Movie: Motel the Operator

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Chaim Tauber
Chaim Tauber

Motel Friedman

Malvina Rappel
Malvina Rappel

Esther Friedman

Maurice Kroner
Maurice Kroner

Benjamin Rosenwald

Berthe Hart
Berthe Hart

Rebecca Rosenwald

Seymour Rechtzeit
Seymour Rechtzeit

Jack Rosenwald

Jacob Zanger
Jacob Zanger

Jacob 'Joseph' Frumkin

Yetta Zwerling
Yetta Zwerling

Chane Belle 'Annabella' Frumkin

Gertrude Krause
Gertrude Krause

Ruth Frumkin

Herman Rosen
Herman Rosen

Doctor

Izidor Frankel
Izidor Frankel

Boss

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    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.

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    1940-01-15

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