Motel the Operator (1940)
1h 28m
Running Time
January 15, 1940Release Date
Motel the Operator (1940)
1h 28m
Running Time
January 15, 1940Release Date
Plot.
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.
Where to Watch.
Subs
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Cast & Crew.
Chaim Tauber
Motel Friedman
Maurice Kroner
Benjamin Rosenwald
Seymour Rechzeit
Jacob 'Jack' Rosenwald
Yetta Zwerling
Chane Belle 'Annabella' Frumkin
Seymour Rechtzeit
Jack Rosenwald
Jacob Zanger
Jacob 'Joseph' Frumkin
Maurice Krohner
Benjamin Rosenwald
Izidor Frankel
The Boss
Berthe Hart
Rebecca Rosenwald
Gertrude Krause
Ruth Frumkin
Malvina Rappel
Esta Friedman
Herman Rosen
Actor
Joseph Seiden
Director
Louis 'Leibele' Waldman
The Cantor
Sholom Secunda
Composer
Charles Levine
Cinematographer
Murray Dichter
Sound
Don Malkames
Cinematographer
Paul Jacobs
Sound
F. Allstadt
ProductionDesigner
Joseph Schoengold
Details.
Release DateJanuary 15, 1940
Original NameMotl der Operator
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 28m
Genres
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This Movie Is About.
strike
yiddish