Awake and Sing!

Awake and Sing!
1972-06-03
95
Released

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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Walter Matthau

Walter Matthau

Moe Axelrod
Ron Rifkin

Ron Rifkin

Sam Feinschreiber
Felicia Farr

Felicia Farr

Hennie
Martin Ritt

Martin Ritt

Uncle Morty
Leo Fuchs

Leo Fuchs

Jacob
Robert Lipton

Robert Lipton

Ralph Berger

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