Fools (1981)

Written by Neil Simon
Directed by Mike Nichols
Cast: John Rubinstein, Harold Gould, Gerald Hiken, Joseph Leon, David Lipman, Pamela Reed, Richard B. Shull, Florence Stanley

Leon Tolchinsky, an ambitious young schoolteacher, arrives in the Ukrainian village of Kulyenchikov in order to educate a doctor's daughter, Sophia Zubritsky. Upon arrival, Leon meets several of the locals: Snetsky the shepherd, Mishkin the postman, Slovitch the butcher, and Yenchna the vendor.