Drama
Tevye (1939)
"The original, non-musical film version of the book which inspired "Fiddler on the Roof"."
Director: Maurice Schwartz
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?
Top Billed Cast
Maurice Schwartz
Tevya 'Tevye'
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Miriam Riselle
Chavah 'Khave'
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Rebecca Weintraub
Goldie 'Golde'
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Paula Lubelski
Zeitel 'Tseytl'
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Leon Liebgold
Fedya 'Fedye' Galagen
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Vicki Marcus
Shloimele
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Betty Marcus
Perele
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Julius Adler
Aleksei, the Priest
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Daniel Makarenko
Mikita Galagen, Fedya's Father
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Helen Grossman
Mrs. Galagen, Mikita's Wife
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Morris Strassberg
Starosta
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Al Harris
Zazuli 'Zuzuya'
