Motel the Operator

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1940 / 88min.

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Genres

Drama

Synopsis

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.

Directors

Joseph Seiden

Actors

Herman Rosen

Maurice Krohner

Gertrude Krause

Seymour Rechtzeit

Izidor Frankel

Yetta Zwerling

Berthe Hart

Chaim Tauber

Seymour Rechzeit

Maurice Kroner

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