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Critics rate it 23 points higher than audiences do.
Synopsis
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?
Ratings
IMDb6.9/10
Rotten Tomatoes92%
Critics rate it 23 points higher than audiences do.
9 audience votes
Key crew
- Maurice SchwartzDirector
- Maurice SchwartzWriter
- Sholom SecundaOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Maurice SchwartzTevya 'Tevye'
- Miriam RiselleChavah 'Khave'
- Rebecca WeintraubGoldie 'Golde'
- Paula LubelskiZeitel 'Tseytl'
- Leon LiebgoldFedya 'Fedye' Galagen
- Vicki MarcusShloimele
- Betty MarcusPerele
- Julius AdlerAleksei, the Priest
- Daniel MakarenkoMikita Galagen, Fedya's Father
- Helen GrossmanMrs. Galagen, Mikita's Wife
- Morris StrassbergStarosta
- Al HarrisZazuli 'Zuzuya'