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Awake and Sing!(1972)
Status: Released
Date: 1972-03-06
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Time: 1h 35m
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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.
Languages: English.
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Movie: Awake and Sing!
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Walter Matthau
Moe Axelrod
Ron Rifkin
Sam Feinschreiber
Felicia Farr
Hennie
Martin Ritt
Uncle Morty
Leo Fuchs
Jacob
Robert Lipton
Ralph Berger
John Myhers
Schlosser
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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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