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Tevye (1939)

Tevye (1939)

Drama

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

Release Date: 1939, December 21
Directors: Maurice Schwartz
Countries: United States of America
Production: Maymon Film Inc.
Cast: Morris Strassberg, Maurice Schwartz, Paula Lubelski, Miriam Riselle, Rebecca Weintraub, Leon Liebgold, Vicki Marcus, Betty Marcus, Julius Adler, Daniel Makarenko, Helen Grossman, Louis Weisberg

Overview:

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?