Movie
Awake and Sing! (1972)
Drama
Story
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.
Director: Robert Hopkins, Norman Lloyd Starring: Walter Matthau, Ron Rifkin, Felicia Farr, Martin Ritt
Awake and Sing! Cast
- Walter Matthau as Moe Axelrod
- Ron Rifkin as Sam Feinschreiber
- Felicia Farr as Hennie
- Martin Ritt as Uncle Morty
- Leo Fuchs as Jacob
- Robert Lipton as Ralph Berger
- John Myhers as Schlosser
- Ruth Storey as Bessie Berger