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.

Genre:

Drama

Duration:

88 min

Actor:

Chaim Tauber, Malvina Rappel, Maurice Kroner

Quality:

HD

Director:

Joseph Seiden

Release:

1940

Country:

United States of America

IMDb:

10.0