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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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Fifty-Fifty
Canola
Nice Sister-In-Law
Man of Iron
Billy Elliot
The Shipwreck
Why Women Love
Lady Caliph
Gandhi
Alia: A Bosniac Rhapsody
A Room in Town
Love, Lies
The Funeral
Güeros
Mr. Egotistic
Daisy Kenyon
Random Harvest
Wedding Wars
Homecoming
Tear It Down
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