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TEVYE

Director:

  Maurice Schwartz
  

Year Released:

  1939

Jan's Rating:

Rich's Rating:

4 out of 5

3.5 out of 5

Key Performances:

  Leon Liebgold
  Maurice Schwartz
  Miriam Riselle
  Paula Lubelski
  Rebecca Weintraub
Movie Haiku:TEVYE is currently the only Yiddish language film including in the Library of Congress’s National Film Registry. Cinephiles should adjust their expectations; while relatively primitive cinematically, TEVYE’s extraordinary as a recorded play. Loosely-based on two of Sholem Aleichem’s eight TEVYE THE DAIRYMAN stories, TEVYE focuses on Chava’s marriage to Fyedka.***** For more, see the “Columns” section for Jan’s WJD review.

ADDITIONAL FF2 INFO ABOUT THIS FILM:

Women filmmakers?

  No

Jewish content?

  No

Haiku Posted:

  2004