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1. Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
G | 181 min | Drama, Family, Musical
In pre-revolutionary Russia, a Jewish peasant with traditional values contends with marrying off three of his daughters with modern romantic ideals while growing anti-Semitic sentiment threatens his village.
Director: Norman Jewison | Stars: Topol, Norma Crane, Leonard Frey, Molly Picon
Votes: 47,895 | Gross: $80.50M
2. Tevya (1939)
Approved | 93 min | Drama
The original, non-musical film version of the book which inspired "Fiddler on the Roof".
Director: Maurice Schwartz | Stars: Maurice Schwartz, Miriam Riselle, Rebecca Weintraub, Paula Lubelski
Votes: 393
3. Jewish Luck (1925)
PG-13 | 100 min | Comedy, Romance
Jewish Luck revolves around Menakhem Mendl (one of Sholem Aleichem's characters), a daydreaming entrepreneur who specializes in doomed strike-it-rich schemes. Despite Jewish oppression in ... See full summary »
Director: Alexis Granowsky | Stars: Solomon Mikhoels, S. Epstein, Moisei Goldblat, Tevye Khazak
Votes: 170
4. Song of Songs (2015)
75 min | Drama, Romance
1905. A Jewish Shtetl. Shimek and Buzya are two 10 year olds. Of course, she is a princess and he is aprince. They live in the same yard, in neighboring palaces. What Buzya really means to ... See full summary »
Director: Eva Neymann | Stars: Karen Badalov, Vitalina Bibliv, Mikhail Bogdasarov, Yevheniy Kogan
Votes: 87
5. Play of the Week (1959–1961)
Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
This syndicated anthology series staged a different play every week covering all genres, dramas, comedies, musicals, fantasies, mysteries, et al, utilizing some of the best talent appearing on Broadway.
Stars: Myron McCormick, Cathleen Nesbitt, Frank Conroy, Tim O'Connor
Votes: 80
6. Tevye's Daughters (2017)
PG | 120 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
"Tevye's Daughters" is an authentic tragicomedy directed by Vova Lert. The screenplay is based on the famous play "Memorial Prayer" by Grigori Gorin. This play has been successfully ... See full summary »
Director: Vladimir Lert | Stars: Evgeniy Knyazev, Andrey Kaykov, Vladimir Dolinskiy, Anton Shagin
Votes: 71
7. Camera Three (1955–1980)
30 min | Drama
A weekly examination of the arts and literature, on Sunday mornings when there was more likely to be an audience interested in such matters and there was less competition for ratings.
Stars: James Macandrew, Faubion Bowers, Margaret Croyden, Alfredo Antonini
Votes: 63
8. Wandering Stars (1991)
147 min | Drama
Director: Vsevolod Shilovskiy | Stars: Irina Lachina, Valeriy Smetskoy, Mamuka Kikaleishvili, Sofiko Chiaureli
Votes: 35
9. The World of Sholom Aleichem (1959 TV Movie)
Drama
This omnibus release consists of three playlets filmed and aired during television's Golden Age, and starring some of the legends of film and television. The collection originally ran as a ... See full summary »
Director: Don Richardson | Stars: Gertrude Berg, Conrad Bromberg, Morris Carnovsky, Elsa Freed
Votes: 34
10. Tuvia Vesheva Benotav (1968)
120 min | Drama
Russia, 1905. Tevye 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... See full summary »
Director: Menahem Golan | Stars: Shmuel Rodensky, Betty Segal, Ninet Dinar, Avital Paz
Votes: 33
11. Bookmark (1983–1999)
50 min | Biography
A look at the world of books and writers.
Stars: Ian Hamilton, Simon Winchester, A.N. Wilson, Fay Weldon
Votes: 27
12. It Will Never Happen Again (1951)
70 min | Drama
In this, Poland's last Yiddish feature film, comedy duo Dzigan and Shumacher play all the parts in a Sholem Aleichem story staged for an audience of children who survived the Holocaust.
Director: Natan Gross | Stars: Shimen Dzigan, Ysrael Szumacher, Niusia Gold, Nathan Meisler
Votes: 26
13. Alta comedia (1965– )
120 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
Stars: Fernando Soler, Sara García, Ruben Tuesta, Ignacio Quirós
Votes: 25
14. Folio (1955–1959)
Drama, Musical
Stars: Douglas Rain, Jack Creley, Lloyd Bochner, Frank Peddie
Votes: 22
15. Skvoz slyozy (1928)
95 min | Comedy
Mothl's father dies, leaving him to survive on his own in a changing world while the tailor Shimen-Elye buys a she-goat which mysteriously changes gender each time its new owner stops at ... See full summary »
Director: Grigori Gritscher-Tscherikower | Stars: Ivan Kaveberg, Anna Goricheva, D. Cantor, Mariya Sinelnikova
Votes: 22
16. My yedem v Ameriku (1992)
Drama
Director: Yefim Gribov | Stars: Dima Davydov, Lyubov Rumyantseva, Semyon Strugachyov, Vadim Danilevsky
Votes: 22
17. Teve-molochnik (1985– )
179 min | History
Soviet-Russian theatrical tv-performence of the Russian translation of the famous yiddish book "Tevye der Mikhman" from Sholomon Rabinovich (Sholom Aleychem).
Stars: Sergey Makovetskiy, Mikhail Ulyanov, Vera Sotnikova, Vladimir Simonov
Votes: 19
18. Broken Barriers (1919)
70 min | Drama
Earliest film adaptation of Sholem Aleichem's Tevye stories (the stories that became the primary source materials for the musical "Fiddler on the Roof" decades later). This adaptation ... See full summary »
Director: Charles E. Davenport | Stars: Alice Hastings, Alexander Tenenholtz, Giacomo Masuroff, Billie Wilson
Votes: 18
19. Die höhere Schule (1964 TV Movie)
62 min | Drama
Director: Wilhelm Semmelroth | Stars: Martin Berliner, Ida Ehre, Marius Müller-Westernhagen, Alwin Joachim Meyer
Votes: 14
20. Tevye and His Seven Daughters (1962 TV Movie)
90 min | Comedy, Drama
Director: Gerhard Klingenberg | Stars: Franz Kutschera, Rudolf Wessely, Hannes Siegl, Alfred Balthoff
Votes: 12
21. Topele (1968)
G | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
Topele recreates in loving detail the economically poor but culturally rich world of the "shtedtl" or small town, with its bustling marketplace, muddy duck pond, and vodka-guzzling police ... See full summary »
Director: Leo Filler | Stars: Rachel Attas, Shlomo Bar-Shavit, Ya'ackov Bodo, Dassi Hadari
Votes: 8
22. Monsa Monster (2016 Podcast Series)
Monsa Monster brings you the treasures of Yiddish storytelling with a new monsa (story) each month, sharing classic and modern masterpieces of Jewish imagination.
Stars: Jerry Stiller, Robby Adler, Laurie Metcalf, Leonard Nimoy
23. Fiddler on the Roof
Drama, Family, Musical | Announced
A new film version of the Broadway musical, based on Sholem Aleichem's stories of Tevye, his five daughters, and his attempts to maintain his Jewish religious and cultural traditions as outside influences encroach upon the family's lives.
Director: Thomas Kail
24. Shoestring Theatre (1959–1964)
Drama
Stars: Kay Tremblay, Powys Thomas, Gerald Rowan, Margaret Cunningham
25. Las grandes novelas (1970– )
Drama
Stars: Walter Vidarte, Héctor Alterio, Sergio Renán, Aldo Barbero
26. Wandering Stars (1927)
63 min | Drama
The violinist Leva Ratkovich loved the poor girl Rachel, but her father did not allow her to marry a "beggar". Making sure that in tsarist Russia he could not achieve recognition, Leva ... See full summary »
Director: Grigori Gritscher-Tscherikower | Stars: Ya. Bri, I. Dubravim, Raisa Rami-Shor, Matvei Lyarov
27. Mabul (1927)
43 min | Short
This film depicts the participation of Jews in the 1905 Revolution, centred around the girl Esfir Kaufman who, in spite of her father's wish for her to marry, joins the revolutionary party.
Director: Evgeniy Ivanov-Barkov | Stars: Chechik-Efrati, A. Dzyubina, Benno Schneider, Nekhama Vinyar
28. Protiv voli ottsov (1927)
Drama
Against the will of the fathers (1926) was shot based on the story of Sholom Aleichem "Blood Stream", which talks about the participation of Jews in the 1905 revolution. The first version ... See full summary »
Director: Evgeniy Ivanov-Barkov | Stars: A. Dzyubina, David Itkin, Vasili Kozhura, Arye Varshaver
29. Prva ljubav (1962 TV Movie)
60 min | Comedy
Director: Mirjana Samardzic | Stars: Zoran Benderic, Dejan Dubajic, Vuka Kostic, Mirko Milisavljevic
30. Abécédaire incomplet de l'humour juif (2011 Video)
47 min | Documentary, Comedy
Directors: Noam Roubah, Jeremy Rozen | Stars: Alain Gluckstein, Haïm Korsia, Isy Morgensztern, Gérard Rabinovitch
31. Stempenyu (1989 TV Movie)
Drama
Based on the novel of Sholom Aleichem "Stempenyu".
Director: Dan Wolman | Stars: Avital Karmon, Tal Kreslnick, Amos Shoov
32.
Play of the Week (1959–1961)
Episode:
World of Sholom Aleichem
(1959)
Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Director: Don Richardson | Stars: Gertrude Berg, Conrad Bromberg, Morris Carnovsky, Elsa Freed
33.
Bookmark (1983–1999)
Episode:
The Shlemiel, the Shlemazl and the Doppess...
(1990)
Biography
Director: Jack Gold | Stars: Lee Montague, Sara Kestelman, Majer Bogdanski, Carl Cowl
34.
Camera Three (1955–1980)
Episode:
Yiddish Stories of Two Worlds
(1965)
Drama
Director: Nick Havinga | Stars: Jacqueline Britton, Robert Burr, Sarah Cunningham, James Macandrew
35.
Monsa Monster (2016)
The Neighborhood Sneezes
(2016 Podcast Episode)
Sholem Aleichem's young hero Motl gets involved in a get-rich-quick scheme that leaves the neighborhood in an uproar.
Stars: Hershey Felder, Jerry Stiller
36.
Alta comedia (1965– )
Episode:
Tevié, el lechero
(1971)
Drama, Mystery, Romance
Director: Wilfredo Ferrán | Stars: Pablo Alarcón, Arnaldo André, Berta Castelar, Sara García
37.
Las grandes novelas (1970– )
Episode:
Menajem Mendel
(1970)
Drama
Director: Marcelo Domínguez | Stars: Héctor Alterio, Aldo Barbero, Marta Gam, Zulema Katz
38.
Folio (1955–1959)
Episode:
The Littlest of Kings
(1959)
Drama, Musical
Director: Harvey Hart | Stars: Paul Kligman, Norm Bornstein, Basya Hunter, Art Jenoff
39.
Shoestring Theatre (1959–1964)
Episode:
The High School
(1960)
Drama
Stars: Henry Gamer, Chayele Grober