Morris Strassberg

John Klute est détective privé. Un jour, l'épouse et l'associé de son ami Tom Gruneman, disparu depuis six mois, lui demandent de le retrouver. Il se rend de Pennsylvanie à New York pour mener l'enquête. La seule piste est une call-girl, Bree Daniels, à qui Tom aurait adressé des lettres obscènes.

Celia Adler, doyenne of the Yiddish stage, gives a haunting performance as a new immigrant forced to give up her son. Obsessed with the thought of reuniting with him, she spends the next 25 years searching, pining, and bewailing her loss.

Tevye is a dairyman in the Russian Ukraine early in the 20th century. He lives in a cabin outside Boyberik with his wife Goldie, his widowed daughter Tseytl, her two children, and his younger daughter, the unmarried Khave. Khave is being courted by Fedya, a Christian, the son of a local government official. Tevye warns Khave against romance and marriage outside her faith, but Fedya is persuasive too. What will Khave decide, how will Tevye react, and when the Tsar initiates a pogrom, will Tevye's friends come to his defense? Can the stubborn Tevye reconcile his heart and tradition?