Awake and Sing!

Awake and Sing!

Awake and Sing!

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Awake and Sing!

1972

1h 35m

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Drama

Overview

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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8 members

Acting

Walter Matthau

Moe Axelrod

Walter Matthau

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Ron Rifkin

Sam Feinschreiber

Ron Rifkin

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Felicia Farr

Hennie

Felicia Farr

Directing

Martin Ritt

Uncle Morty

Martin Ritt

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Leo Fuchs

Jacob

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Robert Lipton

Ralph Berger

Robert Lipton

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John Myhers

Schlosser

John Myhers

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Ruth Storey

Bessie Berger

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