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Tevye
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?
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Cast
Maurice SchwartzTevya 'Tevye'- Miriam RiselleChavah 'Khave'
- Rebecca WeintraubGoldie 'Golde'
- Paula LubelskiZeitel 'Tseytl'
- Leon LiebgoldFedya 'Fedye' Galagen
- Vicki MarcusShloimele
- Betty MarcusPerele
- Julius AdlerAleksei, the Priest
- Daniel MakarenkoMikita Galagen, Fedya's Father
- Helen GrossmanMrs. Galagen, Mikita's Wife
- Morris StrassbergStarosta
- Al HarrisZazuli 'Zuzuya'
- Louis WeisbergShtarsina
- Boas YoungUradnick, the Officer
Details
- Director
- Maurice Schwartz
- Writers
- Sholom Aleichem, Maurice Schwartz, Marcy Klauber
- Release date
- December 21, 1939
- Runtime
- 1h 33m
- Original language
- English
- Studios
- Maymon Film Inc.
