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Content: 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.

Countries:

United States of America

Genres:

Drama

Runtime:

88 minutes

Year:

1940

Directors:

Joseph Seiden

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Production companies:

Cinema Service Corp.

Actors:

Motel Friedman

Esther Friedman

Benjamin Rosenwald

Rebecca Rosenwald

Jack Rosenwald

Crews:

Theatre Play

Director

Assistant Director

Sound

Art Direction