Tevya | |
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Directed by | Maurice Schwartz |
Written by | Maurice Schwartz |
Produced by | Henry Ziskin |
Starring | Maurice Schwartz Miriam Riselle Rebecca Weintraub Paula Lubelski |
Distributed by | Maymon Films Inc. |
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Running time | 93 min |
Country | United States |
Languages | Yiddish Russian |
Budget | $70,000[1][2] |
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.[2] It was the first non-English language picture selected for preservation by the National Film Registry.[3][4]