Fiddler On The Roof

Drama, Family, Musical

Topol	Tevye
Norma Crane	Golde
Leonard Frey	Motel
Rosalind Harris	Tzeitel
Paul Mann	Lazar Wolf
Michele Marsh	Hodel
Molly Picon	Yente
Ray Lovelock	Fyedka
Paul Michael Glaser	Perchik
Shimen Ruskin	Mordcha
Neva Small	Chava
Theodore Bikel
Candy Bonstein
Ina Claire
Brian Coburn
Patience Collier

Director	Norman Jewison; Jerome Robbins
Producer	Norman Jewison; Patrick J. Palmer
Writer	Norman Jewison; Sholom Aleichem; Joseph Stein

This movie musical follows the family of Tevye the Milkman (Zero Mostel), a poor Jew in a Eastern European shtetl as his three oldest daughters fall in love and get married. Each daughter marries progressively less culturally acceptable men: the first marries a poor tailor, the second a Jewish Marxist revolutionary, and the third a Russian non-Jew. The movie also follows the relationship between Jewish and non-Jewish communities in Eastern Europe, starting with co-existance and ending up with downright hatred and ethnic cleansing. Other important characters in the movie include Tevye's wife Golda as well as the village matchmaker, whose suggestions are regularly ignored by Tevye's rebellious daughters.