11 Oct 1998
Happiness
The lives of several individuals intertwine as they go about their lives in their own unique ways, engaging in acts which society as a whole might find disturbing in a desperate search for human connection.
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.
Top Billed Cast
Chaim Tauber Motel Friedman
Malvina Rappel Esther Friedman
Maurice Kroner Benjamin Rosenwald
Berthe Hart Rebecca Rosenwald
Seymour Rechtzeit Jack Rosenwald
Jacob Zanger Jacob 'Joseph' Frumkin
Yetta Zwerling Chane Belle 'Annabella' Frumkin
Gertrude Krause Ruth Frumkin
Herman Rosen Doctor
Izidor Frankel Boss
Seymour Rechzeit Jacob 'Jack' Rosenwald
Maurice Krohner Benjamin Rosenwald
Joseph Schoengold Louis 'Leibele' Waldman The Cantor
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