Tevye

Tevye

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Status

Released

Release Date

Dec 21, 1939

Runtime

1h 33m

Genres

Drama

User Score

57%

Original Title

Tevya

Production Companies

Maymon Film Inc.

Director

Maurice Schwartz

Description

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?