Motl der Operator (1940)
Motel the Operator
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.
Casting arrow_drop_down
Chaim Tauber
as Motel Friedman
as Motel Friedman
Malvina Rappel
as Esther Friedman
as Esther Friedman
Maurice Kroner
as Benjamin Rosenwald
as Benjamin Rosenwald
Berthe Hart
as Rebecca Rosenwald
as Rebecca Rosenwald
Seymour Rechtzeit
as Jack Rosenwald
as Jack Rosenwald
Jacob Zanger
as Jacob 'Joseph' Frumkin
as Jacob 'Joseph' Frumkin
Yetta Zwerling
as Chane Belle 'Annabella' Frumkin
as Chane Belle 'Annabella' Frumkin
Gertrude Krause
as Ruth Frumkin
as Ruth Frumkin
Herman Rosen
as Doctor
as Doctor
Izidor Frankel
as Boss
as Boss
Seymour Rechzeit
as Jacob 'Jack' Rosenwald
as Jacob 'Jack' Rosenwald
Maurice Krohner
as Benjamin Rosenwald
as Benjamin Rosenwald
Joseph Schoengold
as
as
Louis 'Leibele' Waldman
as The Cantor
as The Cantor
Crew arrow_drop_down
Chaim Tauber
Theatre Play
Theatre Play
Joseph Seiden
Director
Director
Herman Rosen
Assistant Director
Assistant Director
Paul Jacobs
Sound
Sound
F. Allstadt
Art Direction
Art Direction
Murray Dichter
Sound
Sound
Charles Levine
Director of Photography
Director of Photography
Don Malkames
Director of Photography
Director of Photography
Sholom Secunda
Original Music Composer
Original Music Composer
