Movie

Awake and Sing!

(en)

1972

1h35m

Awake and Sing!

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.

Status: Released

Release date: June 3, 1972

Countries of origin: United States of America,

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Production companies
  • KCET
  • Broadway Theatre Archive

Top Cast

Walter Matthau

Walter Matthau

as Moe Axelrod

Ron Rifkin

Ron Rifkin

as Sam Feinschreib...

Felicia Farr

Felicia Farr

as Hennie

Martin Ritt

Martin Ritt

as Uncle Morty

Leo Fuchs

Leo Fuchs

as Jacob

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