Fiddler on the Roof is a movie directed by Norman Jewison in 1971 and based on the book Tevye’s Daughters by Sholom Aleichem, first published in 1894. The movie features Topol, Norma Crane, Leonard Frey, Molly Picon, Paul Mann, Rosalind Harris, and others.
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Storyline
In 1905, Tevye, a poor Jewish milkman living in the Ukrainian village of Anatevka, a typical shtetl in the Pale of Settlement of Imperial Russia, compares the lives of the Jews of Anatevka to a fiddler on the roof, using tradition to scratch out a pleasant, simple tune without breaking their necks. Tzeitel loves her childhood sweetheart, the tailor Motel Kamzoil, and frantically begs her father not to make her marry Lazar.
Movie vs Book
Year
1971
Minutes
181
Movie Rate
8.00
Source: IMDb
Movie
Fiddler on the Roof
Director: Norman Jewison
Country: USA
Year: 1971
Length: 3h1m
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Year
1894
Pages
302
Book Rate
8.28
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Book
Tevye's Daughters
Author: Sholom Aleichem
Country: Russia
First published in: 1894
Length: 302 pages
Genre: Fiction
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