The original, non-musical film version of the book which inspired "Fiddler on the Roof".
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?
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Maurice Schwartz
Tevya 'Tevye'
Miriam Riselle
Chavah 'Khave'
Rebecca Weintraub
Goldie 'Golde'
Paula Lubelski
Zeitel 'Tseytl'
Leon Liebgold
Fedya 'Fedye' Galagen
Vicki Marcus
Shloimele
Betty Marcus
Perele
Julius Adler
Aleksei, the Priest
Daniel Makarenko
Mikita Galagen, Fedya's Father
Helen Grossman
Mrs. Galagen, Mikita's Wife
Morris Strassberg
Starosta
Al Harris
Zazuli 'Zuzuya'
Louis Weisberg
Shtarsina
Boas Young
Uradnick, the Officer
