| Tevya | |
|---|---|
&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:Tevya_(1939_film_poster).jpg) Theatrical release poster in English and Yiddish | |
| 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. |
Release date |
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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]
- ^ Richard Koszarski, Hollywood on the Hudson: Film and Television in New York from Griffith to Sarnoff, Rutgers University Press, 2008. p. 385.
- ^ a b Turner Classic Movies
- ^ "Complete National Film Registry Listing". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-05-12.
- ^ "Tevye". www.jewishfilm.org. Retrieved 2020-05-12.