Date Movies » Fiddler on the Roof http://datemovies.org Mon, 30 Mar 2009 04:43:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Fiddler on the Roof http://datemovies.org/fiddler-on-the-roof.html http://datemovies.org/fiddler-on-the-roof.html#comments Sun, 08 Mar 2009 07:06:17 +0000 Mr Love http://datemovies.org/?p=3 Fiddler on the Roof is the 1971 American film adaptation of the Broadway musical of the same name. It was directed by Norman Jewison. The film won three Academy Awards, including one for arranger-conductor John Williams. It was nominated for several more, including Best Picture, Best Actor for Chaim Topol as Tevye, and Best Supporting Actor for Leonard Frey, who played Motel the Tailor (both had originally acted in the musical; Topol as Tevye in the London production and Frey in a minor part as Mendel, the rabbi’s son). The decision to cast Topol as Tevye instead of Zero Mostel was a somewhat controversial one, as the role had originated with Mostel and he had made it famous.

Recording was done at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire, England. Most of the exterior shots were done in Croatia: in Mala Gorica, Lekenik, and Zagreb.

The film follows the plot of the stage play very closely, although it omits the songs “Now I Have Everything” and “The Rumor”. It takes place in the Jewish village of Anatevka in Tsarist Russia in 1905 and centers on the character of Tevye, a poor milkman, and his daughters’ marriages. As Tevye says in the introductory narration, the Jews have relied upon their traditions to maintain the stability of their way of life for centuries; but as times change, that stability is threatened on the small scale by Tevye’s daughters’ wishes to marry men not chosen in the traditional way by the matchmaker, and on the large scale by pogroms and revolution in Russia.

Cast

  • Chaim Topol as Tevye
  • Norma Crane as Golde
  • Leonard Frey as Motel Kamzoil
  • Molly Picon as Yente
  • Paul Mann as Lazar Wolf
  • Rosalind Harris as Tzeitel
  • Michèle Marsh as Hodel
  • Neva Small as Chava
  • Michael Glaser as Perchik
  • Raymond Lovelock as Fyedka
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