Motel the Operator
Motel the Operator

Storyline

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.
    Released
    1/15/1940
    Runtime
    1h 28min
    Director
    Genre
    Status
    Released
    Language
    Yiddish
    Production
    Cinema Service Corp.
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Wynk Movies
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