Tevye

Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness (2011)

Actors: Peter Riegert (actor), Rachel Dratch (actress), Karen Shatzkin (miscellaneous crew), John Zorn (composer), Alan Rosenberg (actor), Jason Kravits (actor), Kenneth Levis (editor), Amanda Zinoman (editor), Joseph Dorman (producer), Joseph Dorman (writer), Joseph Dorman (director), Aaron Kuhn (editor), David Roskies (actor), Dan Miron (actor), Ruth Wisse (actor),

Plot: A riveting portrait of the great writer whose stories became the basis of the Broadway musical Fiddler on the Roof. Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness tells the tale of the rebellious genius who created an entirely new literature. Plumbing the depths of a Jewish world locked in crisis and on the cusp of profound change, he captured that world with brilliant humor. Sholem Aleichem was not just a witness to the creation of a new modern Jewish identity, but one of the very men who forged it.

Keywords: jewish-identity
Genres: Documentary,
Taglines: Before there was Fiddler, there was Tevye... and the man who created him.

Jewz N the Hood (2005)

Actors: Esther Goodstein (miscellaneous crew), Neil Mandelberg (editor), Joe Egender (actor), Allie Raye (producer), Adam Shapiro (actor), Corey Bodoh-Creed (miscellaneous crew), Peter Himmelman (composer), Joshua Stern (producer), Joshua Stern (director), Joshua Stern (writer), Jonathan Murphy (actor), Yaa Boaa Aning (costume designer), Ben Newmark (actor), Chuck Carter (actor), Trevor Howard (composer),

Genres: Comedy, Short,

Tevye molochnik (1985)

Actors: Yuri Katin-Yartsev (actor), Mikhail Ulyanov (actor), Sergey Makovetskiy (actor), Vladimir Simonov (actor), Boris Livanov (actor), Nikolai Karetnikov (composer), Vera Sotnikova (actress), Galina Volchek (actress), Yuri Vasilyev (actor), Sholom Aleichem (writer), Yelena Tonunts (actress), Yevgeni Fyodorov (actor), Aleksandr Kotov (actor), Marina Sakharova (actress), Sergei Yevlakhishvili (producer),

Genres: History,

Fiddler on the Roof (1971)

Actors: Shimen Ruskin (actor), Norman Jewison (producer), Robert Stevenson (actor), Ray Lovelock (actor), Vladimir Medar (actor), Louis Zorich (actor), Roger Lloyd-Pack (actor), Tutte Lemkow (actor), Arnold Diamond (actor), Paul Michael Glaser (actor), Vernon Dobtcheff (actor), Carl Jaffe (actor), Harry Fielder (actor), John Williams (composer), Walter Mirisch (producer),

Plot: At the beginning of the twentieth century, Jews and Orthodox Christians live in the little village of Anatevka in the pre-revolutionary Russia of the Czars. Among the traditions of the Jewish community, the matchmaker arranges the match and the father approves it. The milkman Reb Tevye is a poor man that has been married for twenty-five years with Golde and they have five daughters. When the local matchmaker Yente arranges the match between his older daughter Tzeitel and the old widow butcher Lazar Wolf, Tevye agrees with the wedding. However Tzeitel is in love with the poor tailor Motel Kamzoil and they ask permission to Tevye to get married that he accepts to please his daughter. Then his second daughter Hodel (Michele Marsh) and the revolutionary student Perchik decide to marry each other and Tevye is forced to accept. When Perchik is arrested by the Czar troops and sent to Siberia, Hodel decides to leave her family and homeland and travel to Siberia to be with her beloved Perchik. When his third daughter Chava decides to get married with the Christian Fyedka, Tevye does not accept and considers that Chava has died. Meanwhile the Czar troops evict the Jewish community from Anatevka.

Keywords: 1900s, anti-semitism, arranged-marriage, barn, based-on-book, based-on-stage-musical, based-on-stage-musical-based-on-book, beggar, blessing, blockbuster
Genres: Drama, Family, History, Musical, Romance,
Taglines: The screen's most magnificent entertainment returns...filled with joy, laughter, love and life. (re-release) a tradition (re-release) "Fiddler on the Roof" on the screen Shout It From The Rooftops! To Life!

Quotes:

Mordcha: If the rich could hire others to die for them we, the poor, would all make a nice living.

Perchik: I'm a very good teacher.::Hodel: I heard that the Rabbi who must praise himself has a congregation of one.

Tevye: As the good book says, when a poor man eats a chicken, one of them is sick.::Mendel: Where does the book say that?::Tevye: Well, it doesn't say that exactly, but somewhere there is something about a chicken.

Tevye: [singing] Is this the little girl I carried? Is this the little boy at play?::Golde: [singing] I don't remember growing older. When did they?

Perchik: In this world it is the rich who are the criminals. Someday their wealth will be ours.::Tevye: That would be nice. If they would agree, I would agree.

Tevye: As Abraham said, "I am a stranger in a strange land... "::Mendel: Moses said that.::Tevye: Ah. Well, as King David said, "I am slow of speech, and slow of tongue."::Mendel: That was also Moses.::Tevye: For a man who was slow of tongue, he talked a lot.

[about Yente, the matchmaker]::Tzeitel: But Mama, the men she finds. The last one was so old and he was bald. He had no hair.::Golde: A poor girl without a dowry can't be so particular. You want hair, marry a monkey.

Perchik: Money is the world's curse.::Tevye: May the Lord smite me with it. And may I never recover.

Tevye: As the good book says, if you spit in the air, it lands in your face.

[to God]::Tevye: I know, I know. We are Your chosen people. But, once in a while, can't You choose someone else?

Tuvia Vesheva Benotav (1968)

Actors: Menahem Golan (producer), Robert Hoffmann (actor), Wolfgang Kieling (actor), Alfred Srp (editor), Peter van Eyck (actor), Menahem Golan (director), Menahem Golan (writer), Ladislas Fodor (writer), Artur Brauner (producer), Dov Seltzer (composer), Dov Hoenig (editor), Sabi Dorr (actor), Shmuel Rodensky (actor), Sholom Aleichem (writer), Michael Hartman (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: Russia, 1905. Tuvia is the only Jew living in the village of Antevka. He is very poor but things change when, as a token of gratitude for a service rendered, he is given a cow and some food. Now, his wife, his seven daughters and himself have access to a better life. Tuvia sells his milk and his butter. Moreover, he is now able to give his daughters a dowry and marry them. But you can't buy happiness. Indeed, Zeitel, the eldest sister, marries only a poor Jewish tailor. The second one weds a young revolutionary and follows him in exile. The third one, pregnant and abandoned by her lover, commits suicide. As for the fourth girl, she is repudiated by Tuvia for marrying the son of the orthodox priest. However, Tuvia still hopes the best for his three remaining daughters. Unfortunately, this the time of pogroms and one is organized in the village. And against whose house? Tuvia's of course, as he is the only Jewish villager. Father, mother and their three daughters refuse to despair. They decide to flee Russia and to seek the Land of Milk and Honey promised by the Bible.

Keywords: based-on-novel, remake
Genres: ,
Taglines: A Cannes Film Festival Select!