Tevye (1939)
- Original title
- Tevya
- Directed by
- Maurice Schwartz
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 33m
- Rating
- 6.3 of 10 from 9 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A Jewish dairyman in Tsarist Russia struggles to provide for his family and marry off his daughters. He navigates tradition, poverty, and the changing world around him.
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What happens
Tevya is a 1939 American Yiddish film, based on author Sholem Aleichem's stock character Tevye the Dairyman, also the subject of the 1964 musical Fiddler on the Roof. It was the first non-English language picture selected for preservation by the National Film Registry. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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