Motel the Operator 1940

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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.

Release Date 1940-01-15
Runtime 1h 28m
Directors Joseph Seiden, Herman Rosen, Don Malkames, Charles Levine
Producer
Writer Chaim Tauber