the apprenticeship of duddy kravitz by mordecai richler

If he does not like the result, he will not pay.

His first customer is Farber, who drives a hard bargain. He hires blacklisted alcoholic film director Friar to film weddings and bar mitzvahs.

Because Duddy is under 21, then the age of majority in Canada, and the current owners might not want to sell to a Jew, he gets Yvette to front for him.ĭuddy sets out to raise the money he needs. Duddy is stunned by the beauty of the setting, and his ambition crystallizes: taking to heart his grandfather's maxim that 'a man without land is nobody', he decides he will buy all the property around the lake and develop it. One day, Yvette takes him on a picnic beside a lake. Unaware of this, the hotel guests, led by Farber, feel bad and give him a further $500.ĭuddy starts a romantic relationship with another hotel employee, French Canadian Yvette. The other waiters find out and make Irwin give back the money. Unbeknownst to Duddy, the roulette wheel is crooked, and he loses his entire $300 earnings to Irwin and some hotel guests. Irwin gets his girlfriend Linda, the daughter of the hotel's owner, to persuade Duddy to stage a clandestine roulette game. His hustle, energy, and coarse manners irritate condescending college student and fellow waiter Irwin. Only his grandfather shows the motherless Duddy any attention.ĭuddy gets a summer job as a waiter at a kosher resort hotel in the Laurentian Mountains. His cab driver father Max and his rich uncle Benjy are very proud of Duddy's older brother Lenny, whom Benjy is putting through medical school. It is based on the 1959 novel of the same name by Mordecai Richler.ĭuddy Kravitz is a brash, restless young Jewish man growing up poor in Montreal. The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz is a 1974 Canadian comedy-drama film directed by Ted Kotcheff and starring Richard Dreyfuss.

The apprenticeship of duddy kravitz by mordecai richler