Awake and Sing!
06/03/1972
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.
Drama
Movie Information
Walter Matthau
as Moe Axelrod
Ron Rifkin
as Sam Feinschreiber
Felicia Farr
as Hennie
Martin Ritt
as Uncle Morty
Leo Fuchs
as Jacob
Robert Lipton
as Ralph Berger
John Myhers
as Schlosser
Ruth Storey
as Bessie Berger
