AWARDS
First Non-English Language Film to have been deemed "culturally significant"
by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation
in the National Film Registry. (1991)
SELECTED
SCREENINGS
Lenore Marwil Jewish Film Festival (2013)
Santa Fe Jewish Film Festival (2013)
San Francisco Jewish Film Festival (2011)
Montreal
International Yiddish Theatre Festival (2011)
Toronto
Jewish Film Festival (2011)
New York
Jewish Film Festival (2011)
Austria
Film Archive (2010)
Yiddish
Book Center (2010)
Cape Town/
Johannesburg Yiddish Film Festival (2008)
HOLLYWOOD ON THE HUDSON: FILMMAKING IN NEW YORK, 1920-1939
The Museum of Modern Art; New York, NY (2008)
Marwill
Jewish Film Festival (2006)
New York
Jewish Film Festival, New York (2005)
Hong Kong
Jewish Film Festival (2002)
Montreal
Jewish Film Festival (2004)
Virginia
Jewish Film Festival (2003)
Toronto
Jewish Film Society (2002)
RESTORED 35MM PRINT
WITH COMPLETE NEW SUBTITLES
This
award-winning Yiddish feature filmstarring the renowned actor Maurice
Schwartz is now on DVD. This classic film, preserved from the original
nitrate negative with new English subtitles has been digitally restored
and augmented with extras and program notes.
Maurice
Schwartz's adaptation of the classic Sholem Aleichem play centers on Khave,
Tevye the Dairyman’s daughter, who falls in love with Fedye, the
son of a Ukrainian peasant. Her courtship and marriage pit Tevye’s
love for his daughter against his deep-seated faith and loyalty to tradition.
The clash between tradition and modernity, parental authority and love,
customs and enlightenment are foreshadowed by the antisemitism of the
rural community. Tevye's world is a microcosm of the larger world of Russian
Jewry in the early 1900s.
The DVD extras
include scenes from two Schwartz Yiddish language feature films, Yizkor
and Uncle
Moses, and program notes.
CRITICAL
ACCLAIM
“In
production just as German tanks rolled into Poland, this bittersweet Yiddish
fable is no Fiddler
on the Roof. Projecting the lessons of the past into
an uncertain present, Schwartz's adaptation of Aleichem's story offered
little comfort for audiences of the time.”
- The Museum
of Modern Art, New York (2008 Screening)
“With
all due respect to Zero Mostel and Topol in Fiddler
on the Roof, it was Maurice Schwartz, the great Yiddish
actor/director, who first showed Tevye the Dairyman in his full light
as a mensch for all seasons. A rare opportunity to see Schwartz in what
may have been his most magnificent role."
-Judy Stone, San Francisco Chronicle
CREDITS
Screenplay
by Maurice Schwartz, based on a novel by Sholem Aleichem
Cast:
Maurice Schwartz, Rebecca Weintraub, Miriam Riselle, Leon Liebgold
ARTICLES
READ
ALL ABOUT IT Schwartz’ TEVYE Receives
the Royal Treatment from NCJF- Jan Lisa Huttner, WORLD JEWISH
DIGEST (12/1/04)
"YIDDISH
TALES COME TO LIFE"
The Jewish Advocate, June 2007
PURCHASE
DVD
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HOME
USE ONLY
$36.00
plus shipping
Home Use Only DVD (Not for Classroom/Institutional
Use)
Does
not include Public Performance Rights
Home
Use Policy (pdf)
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INSTITUTIONAL
USE
$72.00
plus shipping
Classroom/Institutional Use Only
DVD
Does
not include Public Performance Rights
Institutional
Use Policy (pdf)
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