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In prerevolutionary russia a jewish peasant contends with marrying off three of his daughters while growing anti semitic sentiment threatens his village.
It is based on tevye and his daughters or tevye the dairyman and other tales by sholem aleichem the story centers on tevye the father of five daughters and his attempts to maintain his jewish religious and.
Like sir carol reed s oliver norman jewison s fiddler on the roof is a lavish carefully made splendidly designed musical film.
Jewison constructs an entirely believable jewish community in early.
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Parents need to know that fiddler on the roof tackles numerous social and political issues within a religious context including the concepts of interfaith marriages gender roles socialism religious intolerance and more.
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Directed by norman jewison.
Epic in plot setting and length fiddler on the roof tells a surprisingly tight and focused story that has universal poignancy in a nutshell it s about trying to maintain strong cultural traditions and identity in the face of a continually changing world partially fueled by the youth that doesn t necessarily share the culture s values or self assessment of worth.
I suppose fiddler on the roof is just the movie that lovers of the stage play were waiting for and since fiddler is the most popular stage musical in history that s something all right.
With topol norma crane leonard frey molly picon.
Fiddler on the roof is a 1971 american epic musical comedy drama film produced and directed by norman jewison it is an adaptation of the 1964 broadway musical of the same name with music composed by jerry bock lyrics by sheldon harnick and screenplay by joseph stein and based on stories by sholem aleichem starring topol norma crane leonard frey molly picon and paul mann the film.
Fiddler on the roof is a musical with music by jerry bock lyrics by sheldon harnick and book by joseph stein set in the pale of settlement of imperial russia in or around 1905.
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Smaller children may be spooked by the movie s portrayal of the violence of the russian soldiers and may also be frightened by the film s ending in which the inhabitants.
