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Fiddler on the Roof
Directed by
Norman Jewison
G
1971
3h 1m
Musical
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Drama
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8.0
81%
92%
7.7
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In 1905 Russia, a traditionalist Jewish peasant contends with three of his daughters marrying men with modern romantic ideals, all while anti-Semitic sentiment threatens his village.
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Cast of Fiddler on the Roof
Chaim Topol
Tevye
Norma Crane
Golde
Leonard Frey
Motel
Molly Picon
Yente
Paul Mann
Lazar Wolf
Rosalind Harris
Tzeitel
Michele Marsh
Hodel
Neva Small
Chava
Paul Michael Glaser
Perchik
Ray Lovelock
Fyedka
Elaine Edwards
Shprintze
Candy Bonstein
Bielke
Shimen Ruskin
Mordcha
Zvee Scooler
Rabbi
Louis Zorich
Constable
Alfie Scopp
Avram
Howard Goorney
Nachum
Barry Dennen
Mendel
Vernon Dobtcheff
Russian Official
Ruth Madoc
Fruma Sarah
Fiddler on the Roof Ratings & Reviews
New York Daily News
Wanda Hale
Fiddler on the Roof, stunning, joyful, jubilant and emotion stirring, is an artistic triumph for Norman Jewison.
The New Yorker
Pauline Kael
The movie offers the pleasures of big, bold strokes; it's American folk opera, commercial style.
Los Angeles Times
Charles Champlin
[Fiddler on the Roof] has been done not only with such artistry but also with such evident love, devotion, integrity and high aspiration that watching it is a kind of duplex pleasure.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Judith Crist
What really counts is that this universal story of tradition, of generations, of man and God surmounts the inevitable and is in many ways refreshed. Even Tevye is somehow refurbished by Topol.
Chicago Tribune
Gene Siskel
Yes, "Fiddler" on film is a full-blown, three-hour movie musical... But within the limitation of that most treacherous film form, director Norman Jewison has fashioned a sumptuous entertainment laden with happiness and tears... and taste.
Orlando Sentinel
G.J. Fleming
A strong story has been reinforced with memorable music and fine acting. The result is an unpretentious effort at pleasant family entertainment.
Boston Globe
Kevin Kelly
Nearly everything that was the center of the stage-play's very subtle charm, the core of its wisdom and its warmth, has been flattened and forced which is, of course, what happens when the focus of the audience's vision is directed by the camera.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Howell Raines
This long, expensive movie has no life of its own as a movie. Director Jewison has simply used his cameras as tools to construct a larger, more expansive stage on which to present the play.
Detroit Free Press
John Weisman
As Tevye, the renowned Israeli actor Topol is simply marvelous. Warm, loving, full of life, Topol gives to Sholom Aleichem's character the kind of depth that the stage production was never able to achieve.
Arizona Republic
Phil Strassberg
Topol's tour de force is so overpowering, so skillful both in acting as well as in his rich, vibrant singing and his strength of purpose in dancing, that he'll surely become an international star, if such be his desire.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Myles Standish
Director Norman Jewison's big and beautiful film production of the record-breaking stage musical hit, Fiddler on the Roof, is larger than life, but never overwhelmingly so, and retains all the human warmth, humor and poignancy of the original.
Philadelphia Inquirer
William B. Collins
In passage from stage to screen, the musical has gained a little and it has lost a little. On balance, the film is a successful translation.
New York Daily News
Rex Reed
It is a rich and wonderful movie that retains all the nuances of the play while opening up the settings and lives of the people it embraces into a full-blown entertainment that warms the heart and enchants the eye.
Associated Press
William Glover
Adhering with unusual fidelity to the original material while opening it up with haunting pictorial sweep, producer-director Norman Jewison retains the intensely personal appeal of the sentimental fantasy about life among the lowly in old Russia.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Ben Kern
I expected charm, wit, sentiment... What I didn't expect was how overwhelmingly real the bravery, warmth, humanity and indomitability of these people would come through in the person of actor Topol in the role of Tevye.
Newsday
Joseph Gelmis
A respectable, lively and pictorially accomplished movie musical that develops hardly any emotional voltage and which is curiously joyless.
The Hollywood Reporter
Paul Sargent Clark
There are some contrived and artificial moments in Fiddler, but it becomes more convincing, naturalistic, and involving as it goes on, and finally builds to a powerful climax.
TIME Magazine
Jay Cocks
The qualities that have kept the Broadway Fiddler running these seven years are in scant supply onscreen. Gone with barely a trace are warmth, joy, insight and even the most elementary kind of entertainment.
Chicago Reader
Dave Kehr
Earthbound but not bad.
Variety
Variety Staff
Sentimental in a theatrical way, romantic in the oldfashioned way, nostalgic of immigration days, affirmative of human decency, loyalty, bravery and folk humor.
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