Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Topol | ... | Tevye | |
Norma Crane | ... | Golde | |
Leonard Frey | ... | Motel | |
Molly Picon | ... | Yente | |
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Paul Mann | ... | Lazar Wolf |
Rosalind Harris | ... | Tzeitel | |
Michele Marsh | ... | Hodel | |
Neva Small | ... | Chava | |
Paul Michael Glaser | ... | Perchik (as Michael Glaser) | |
Ray Lovelock | ... | Fyedka (as Raymond Lovelock) | |
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Elaine Edwards | ... | Shprintze |
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Candy Bonstein | ... | Bielke |
Shimen Ruskin | ... | Mordcha | |
Zvee Scooler | ... | Rabbi | |
Louis Zorich | ... | Constable |
At the beginning of the twentieth century, Jews and Orthodox Christians live in the little village of Anatevka in the pre-revolutionary Russia of the Czars. Among the traditions of the Jewish community, the matchmaker arranges the match and the father approves it. The milkman Reb Tevye is a poor man that has been married for twenty-five years with Golde and they have five daughters. When the local matchmaker Yente arranges the match between his older daughter Tzeitel and the old widow butcher Lazar Wolf, Tevye agrees with the wedding. However Tzeitel is in love with the poor tailor Motel Kamzoil and they ask permission to Tevye to get married that he accepts to please his daughter. Then his second daughter Hodel (Michele Marsh) and the revolutionary student Perchik decide to marry each other and Tevye is forced to accept. When Perchik is arrested by the Czar troops and sent to Siberia, Hodel decides to leave her family and homeland and travel to Siberia to be with her beloved Perchik.... Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
"Fiddler On the Roof" is the stage-to-screen adaptation of the famous musical. It tells the story of Tevye, a poor Jewish milkman in the tiny Russian village of Anatevka. This role is played by Topol, who played the character onstage in the London production of "Fiddler." We see him as a man mired in traditions, but struggling between his devout faith and the changing times when three of his daughters feel the urge to marry. The movie is beautifully shot, and tempers the story, which deals with the harsh realities of Jewish life in pre-Revolutionary Russia, with classic musical numbers sure to put a smile on your face. Between its incarnations on the stage and on screen, "Fiddler" will be immortal.