The movie tells the life-affirming story of Tevye (Topol), a Jewish poor milkman who contends with marrying off three of his daughters while growing antisemitic sentiment threatens his village in prerevolutionary Russia.
15 December 1936, Scotland, UK
October 12, 1912 in Lambeth, London, England, UK
25 February 1907, Vilna, Russian Empire [now Vilnius, Lithuania]
26 April 1940, Islington, London, England, UK
29 March 1924, Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
4 September 1938, Brooklyn, New York, USA
9 July 1939, USA
28 February 1898, New York City, New York, USA
25 July 1948, Ankara, Turkey
15 September 1919, London, England, UK
18 April 1915, London, England, UK
19 August 1910, London, England, UK
27 December 1941, Morocco
18 November 1891, Rymanów, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Rymanów, Podkarpackie, Poland]
1928, Bradford, Yorkshire, England, UK
5 November 1927, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England, UK
August 14, 1921 in South Africa
22 February 1938, Chicago, Illinois, USA
9 September 1935, Tel Aviv, Palestine [now Israel]
April 27, 1912 in St George in the East, London, England, UK
1925, Richmond, Surrey, England, UK
October 14, 2013
There's a vibrant nature to the acting in this film that warms the heart and makes it feel comfortable, even when things aren't going so great for the characters.
May 07, 2013
Earthbound but not bad.
July 07, 2010
Sentimental in a theatrical way, romantic in the oldfashioned way, nostalgic of immigration days, affirmative of human decency, loyalty, bravery and folk humor.
December 20, 2015
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.
January 26, 2006
Very hard to take with the film sitting up and practically slobbering in its eagerness to prove how loveable it is.
May 07, 2013
A joyous celebration, not only of roots and culture, but of life itself.
May 08, 2011
As a musical look at family, generational and cultural conflict, and faith, Fiddler on the Roof makes a virtue of its quaintness... [Blu-ray]
May 07, 2013
The choreography is clumsy, the acting caricatured, and the songs themselves painfully overblown.
May 07, 2013
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.
April 17, 2011
Topol breathes new life into Joseph Stein, Jerry Bock, and Sheldoon Harnick's musical.
May 07, 2013
The qualities that have kept the Broadway Fiddler running these seven years are in scant supply onscreen.
May 09, 2005
They want to show us everything, to give us our money's worth. In so doing, they've not just opened up the play, they've let most of the life out of it.
