Motel the Operator

Motel the Operator

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Drama

Overview

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.

The Man in Grey
Tear It Down
Daughters Who Pay
This Happy Breed
Made in Dagenham
Some Mother's Son
True Mothers
Atlas Shrugged: Part I
Cart
The First Shot
Untold Scandal
The Organizer
Queen for a Day
The Perils of Pauline
Born in Flames
Margarita with a Straw
SHTTL
Garmil
An American Pickle
Dark Victory