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.

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Cast & Crew.

Chaim Tauber
Motel Friedman / Theatre Play

Malvina Rappel
Esther Friedman

Maurice Kroner
Benjamin Rosenwald

Berthe Hart
Rebecca Rosenwald

Seymour Rechtzeit
Jack Rosenwald

Jacob Zanger
Jacob 'Joseph' Frumkin

Yetta Zwerling
Chane Belle 'Annabella' Frumkin

Gertrude Krause
Ruth Frumkin

Herman Rosen
Doctor / Assistant Director

Izidor Frankel
Boss

Seymour Rechzeit
Jacob 'Jack' Rosenwald

Maurice Krohner
Benjamin Rosenwald

Louis 'Leibele' Waldman
The Cantor

Joseph Seiden
Director

Paul Jacobs
Sound

F. Allstadt
Art Direction

Murray Dichter
Sound

Charles Levine
Director of Photography

Don Malkames
Director of Photography

Sholom Secunda
Original Music Composer

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