(Awake and Sing!)

Content: 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.

Countries:

United States of America

Genres:

Drama

Runtime:

95 minutes

Year:

1972

Directors:

Norman Lloyd

Production companies:

KCET,

Broadway Theatre Archive

Actors:

Moe Axelrod

Sam Feinschreiber

Hennie

Uncle Morty

Jacob

Crews:

Director

Producer

Director

Casting

Writer