Motel the Operator
5.9
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.
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Joseph Seiden Director · Chaim Tauber Author Sholom Secunda Composer
United States release January 15, 1940 · Produced in United States · Original title Motl der Operator
Production
Cinema Service Corp.
Production · Distribution
United States
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Original title
Motl der Operator
Original language
Yiddish
Spoken on screen
Yiddish
Release dates
United States · January 15, 1940
Theatrical
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