Movie

Tevye (1939)

• December 21, 1939
• 1h 33m

• Drama

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

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?

Director

Maurice Schwartz

Writers

Sholom Aleichem, Maurice Schwartz

Starring

Maurice Schwartz, Miriam Riselle, Rebecca Weintraub