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
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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.