Awake and Sing! (1972)

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.

Release Date : Jun 03, 1972

Runtime : 1h 35m

Genre : Drama  

Companies : KCET, Broadway Theatre Archive

Countries : United States of America

Keywords : new york city, world war i, great depression, filmed theater