Tevya (film)
| Tevya | |
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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. |
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Running time | 93 min |
| Country | United States |
| Languages | Yiddish Russian |
| Budget | $70,000 |
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. It was the first non-English language picture selected for preservation by the National Film Registry.