Tevya (film)

Tevya
Theatrical release poster in English and Yiddish
Directed byMaurice Schwartz
Written byMaurice Schwartz
Produced byHenry Ziskin
StarringMaurice Schwartz
Miriam Riselle
Rebecca Weintraub
Paula Lubelski
Distributed byMaymon Films Inc.
Release date
  • December 21, 1939 (1939-12-21)
Running time
93 min
CountryUnited States
LanguagesYiddish
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.