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Tevye
Quick Facts
DirectorMaurice Schwartz
Runtime1h 33m
GenresDrama
Release1939-12-21
Film

Tevye

1939· 1h 33m· Drama

The original, non-musical film version of the book which inspired "Fiddler on the Roof".

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?

1939-12-21
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Key Crew
ProducerHenry Ziskin
Director of PhotographyLarry Williams
Original Music ComposerSholom Secunda
Full cast & crew (14 cast · 9 crew)

Details

Released1939-12-21
Runtime1h 33m
StatusReleased
StudiosMaymon Film Inc.
LanguagesYiddish
CountriesUnited States of America
Rating6.3/10 · 9 votes
Original languageen

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