Tevye

Tevye (1939)

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

Drama

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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  • Release Date: 1939-12-21
  • Runtime: 1h 33min
  • Director: Maurice Schwartz

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    • Cast

    • Maurice Schwartz

      Tevya 'Tevye'

    • Miriam Riselle

      Chavah 'Khave'

    • Rebecca Weintraub

      Goldie 'Golde'

    • Paula Lubelski

      Zeitel 'Tseytl'

    • Leon Liebgold

      Fedya 'Fedye' Galagen

    • Vicki Marcus

      Shloimele

    • Betty Marcus

      Perele

    • Julius Adler

      Aleksei, the Priest

    • Daniel Makarenko

      Mikita Galagen, Fedya's Father

    • Helen Grossman

      Mrs. Galagen, Mikita's Wife

    • Morris Strassberg

      Starosta

    • Al Harris

      Zazuli 'Zuzuya'

    • Louis Weisberg

      Shtarsina

    • Boas Young

      Uradnick, the Officer