Fiddler on the Roof

    Fiddler on the Roof
    1971

    Synopsis

    In a small Jewish community in a pre-Revolutionary Russian village, a poor milkman, determined to find good husbands for his five daughters, consults the traditional matchmaker – and also has words with God.

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    Cast

    • TopolTevye
    • Norma CraneGolde
    • Leonard FreyMotel
    • Molly PiconYente
    • Paul MannLazar Wolf
    • Rosalind HarrisTzeitel
    • Michele MarshHodel
    • Neva SmallChava
    • Paul Michael GlaserPerchik
    • Ray LovelockFyedka

    Recommendations

    • 88

      ReelViews

      Fiddler on the Roof is not a perfect motion picture - it is too long and there are times when it's obvious that the musical numbers have been pre-recorded then lip-synched - but it represents an enjoyable three hours.
    • 83

      The A.V. Club

      By preserving the exoticism and making sure the audience left the theater humming, Jewison made a grubby, European-flavored movie that Yanks could embrace.
    • 80

      Empire

      It still stands up as an upbeat portrait of pre-revolutionary Russia, and will have you whistling If I Were A Rich Man for days.
    • 80

      The Hollywood Reporter

      Norman Jewison's Fiddler on the Roof is a lavish, carefully made, splendidly designed musical film. It demonstrates once again that ample amounts of time and money, intelligently employed, can indeed buy perfection.
    • 80

      Variety

      Sentimental in a theatrical way, romantic in the old fashioned way, nostalgic of immigration days, affirmative of human decency, loyalty, bravery and folk humor.
    • 75

      Chicago Reader

      Norman Jewison's literal-mindedness actually helps squeeze some of the goo from the material.
    • 75

      Chicago Sun-Times

      Would it be heresy on my part to suggest that Fiddler isn't much as a musical, and that director Norman Jewison has made as good a film as can be made from a story that is quite simply boring?
    • 75

      TV Guide Magazine

      What could have been a brilliant film experience, expanding on the stage version as only film can, ends up instead as a series of wonderful bits and pieces.

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