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Tevye

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

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6.3
The Film

Tevye

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

The Story

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?

Runtime

93 min

Released Dec 1939
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