Tevye

Tevya

“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?

Director

Maurice Schwartz

Novela

Sholom Aleichem

Screenplay

Maurice Schwartz

Music

Sholom Secunda

Status

Released

Release date

21/12/1939

Original language

English