Motel the Operator

Motel the Operator

10.019401h 28mReleased
Drama

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.

Director

Joseph Seiden

Writer

Chaim Tauber

Language

Yiddish

Top Cast

C

Chaim Tauber

Motel Friedman

M

Malvina Rappel

Esther Friedman

M

Maurice Kroner

Benjamin Rosenwald

B

Berthe Hart

Rebecca Rosenwald

S

Seymour Rechtzeit

Jack Rosenwald

J

Jacob Zanger

Jacob 'Joseph' Frumkin

Y

Yetta Zwerling

Chane Belle 'Annabella' Frumkin

G

Gertrude Krause

Ruth Frumkin

H

Herman Rosen

Doctor

I

Izidor Frankel

Boss

S

Seymour Rechzeit

Jacob 'Jack' Rosenwald

M

Maurice Krohner

Benjamin Rosenwald

J

Joseph Schoengold

L

Louis 'Leibele' Waldman

The Cantor

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