Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
Stars: Topol,
Norma Crane, Leonard Frey
Director: Norman
Jewison
Writers: Tommy
Abbott (adapted for the screen by), Joseph Stein (based on the stageplay
"Fiddler on the Roof" by)
Genre:
Drama/Family/History
Mirisch Production Company, The, Cartier Productions
Time: 181 min
Rating: G
Plot
At the beginning of the twentieth century, Jews and Orthodox
Christians live in the little village
of Anatevka in the pre-revolutionary Russia
of the Czars. Among the traditions of the Jewish community, the matchmaker
arranges the match and the father approves it. The milkman Reb Tevye is a poor
man that has been married for twenty-five years with Golde and they have five
daughters. When the local matchmaker Yente arranges the match between his older
daughter Tzeitel and the old widow butcher Lazar Wolf, Tevye agrees with the
wedding. However Tzeitel is in love with the poor tailor Motel Kamzoil and they
ask permission to Tevye to get married that he accepts to please his daughter.
Then his second daughter Hodel (Michele Marsh) and the revolutionary student
Perchik decide to marry each other and Tevye is forced to accept. When Perchik
is arrested by the Czar troops and sent to Siberia, Hodel decides to leave her
family and homeland and travel to Siberia to
be with her beloved Perchik....
