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Motel the Operator
Motel the Operator

1940 · 1h 28m · Released

Drama

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.

Director

Joseph Seiden

Cast

C

Chaim Tauber

Motel Friedman

M

Malvina Rappel

Esther Friedman

M

Maurice Kroner

Benjamin Rosenwald

B

Berthe Hart

Rebecca Rosenwald

S

Seymour Rechtzeit

Jack Rosenwald

J

Jacob Zanger

Jacob 'Joseph' Frumkin

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