Tevye

Tevye\ (also known as Tevya and Tevye der Milkhiker) is a 1939 film which tells the story of a Jewish dairyman in Tsarist Russia, who lives with his widowed daughter and her sister, who is being courted by a Christian. It stars Maurice Schwartz, Miriam Riselle, Rebecca Weintraub, Paula Lubelski, Leon Liebgold, Vicki Marcus, Betty Marcus and Julius Adler.

The movie was adapted by Marcy Klauber and Schwartz from the Sholom Aleichem play Tevye der Milkhiker, which was in turn based on a series of fictional memoir by Sholom Aleichem about a pious milkman and the troubles he has with his seven daughters. Schwartz also directed the film. The production is in the Yiddish language. The film has been deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.

The story and play were also used as the source for the Broadway musical and subsequent film Fiddler on the Roof.