Awake and Sing! (1972)

Awake and Sing! (1972)

1972-06-03 United States of America 95 Min. PG-13
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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.

Cast

Walter Matthau is Moe Axelrod
Moe Axelrod
Ron Rifkin is Sam Feinschreiber
Sam Feinschreiber
Felicia Farr is Hennie
Martin Ritt is Uncle Morty
Uncle Morty
Leo Fuchs is Jacob
Robert Lipton is Ralph Berger
Ralph Berger
John Myhers is Schlosser
Schlosser
Ruth Storey is Bessie Berger
Bessie Berger