Tevje and his seven daughters
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Tevje and his seven daughters |
| Original title | Tuvia Vesheva Benotav |
| Country of production |
Israel Germany |
| original language | Hebrew |
| Publishing year | 1968 |
| length | 119 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Menahem Golan |
| script |
Ladislas Fodor Chaim Hefer Menahem Golan |
| production |
Artur Brauner Menahem Golan |
| music | Dov Seltzer |
| camera | Nissim Leon |
| cut |
Dov Hoenig Alfred Srp |
| occupation | |
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Tevje and his seven daughters (original title: Tuvia Vesheva Benotav ) is an Israeli-German film by director Menahem Golan from 1967 with Shmuel Rodensky in the title role. The script was written by Ladislas Fodor and Chaim Hefer in collaboration with the director. It is based on the novel Tevye, the milkman by Sholem Alejchem . Although the film was produced in widescreen and in color for the cinema, it had its world premiere on May 5, 1968 on the Second German Television (ZDF).
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The story takes place in the Ukrainian village of Anatevka at the beginning of the 20th century . The place belonged to tsarist Russia at that time . A larger Jewish community lived there.
Poor Tevje's friendliness and willingness to help bring him sudden happiness: when he brings two misguided women to their destination in his cart, he is richly rewarded. The rubles are enough to buy a cow, and it doesn't take long before Tevje “the milkman” hangs on the box of the wagon, indulging in his dreams, which are primarily concerned with the daughters who need to be brought under the hood. Father makes great plans for everyone. The wedding bitter Menahem Mendel smells business ; but everything turns out differently than intended. Instead of the wealthy but elderly butcher, Zeitl, the eldest, insists on a poor tailor; Hodl, the next, follows a captured socialist to Siberia ; Sprinza goes into the water when her beloved Aharonchik, from whom she is expecting a child, no longer returns, and Chava finally falls in love with a Christian, a love that makes her unfaithful to the old faith. Only in his dreams does Tevje enjoy happiness, from which reality in the village is constantly further removed.
A pogrom against Jews puts an end to life in the old homeland. Tevje sells his house and his cows to the neighbor Anton Poperilli. Then two wagons loaded with people and belongings rattle through Anatevka; Desperate, Chava, who has converted and therefore rejected by her father, runs after her with a bundle until she reaches Tevje's car and his pardon. Palestine is the distant goal.
criticism
“The film deserves to be seen by a large audience, including younger ones, mainly because of Shmuel Rodensky's great art of performing as Tevye - at the cinema premiere it will be revealed whether certain technical shortcomings are due to the tiny screen format alone. "
"Shalom Aleichem's bittersweet story [...] turns into an amiable folk spectacle."
"Predicate 'valuable'"
See also
Anatevka , an American musical based on the same literary source as the film
Web links
- Tevye and his seven daughters in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Evangelischer Filmbeobachter , Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 234/1968, pp. 236–237.
- ↑ a b Lexicon of International Films , rororo-Taschenbuch No. 6322 (1988), p. 3766.