Film
Awake and Sing!
United States- Director
- Robert Hopkins
- Year
- 1972
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.
Top cast
Directed by
Robert Hopkins, Norman Lloyd
Written by
Clifford Odets
Produced by
Norman Lloyd
