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Tevye (1939)
Directed by Maurice Schwartz
“The original, non-musical film version of the book which inspired "Fiddler on the Roof".”
Drama · 1h 33m
Tevye is a dairyman in the Russian Ukraine early in the 20th century. He lives in a cabin outside Boyberik with his wife Goldie, his widowed daughter Tseytl, her two children, and his younger daughter, the unmarried Khave. Khave is being courted by Fedya, a Christian, the son of a local government official. Tevye warns Khave against romance and marriage outside her faith, but Fedya is persuasive too. What will Khave decide, how will Tevye react, and when the Tsar initiates a pogrom, will Tevye's friends come to his defense? Can the stubborn Tevye reconcile his heart and tradition?
Cast
Maurice Schwartz
Tevya 'Tevye'
Crew
- Director
- Maurice Schwartz
- Writer
- Maurice Schwartz
- Novel
- Sholom Aleichem
- Director of Photography
- Larry Williams
- Original Music Composer
- Sholom Secunda
- Editor
- Sam Citron
- Producer
- Henry Ziskin, Maurice Schwartz
Details
- Original title
- Tevya
- Release date
- 1939-12-21
- Runtime
- 1h 33m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- Yiddish
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Maymon Film Inc.