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Fiddler on the Roof

1971

Norman Jewison

Topol, Norma Crane, Leonard Frey, Molly Picon ...

7.5

7,944

Musical. Drama This rousing musical, based on the stories of Shalom Aleichem, takes place in pre-revolutionary Russia and centers on the life of Tevye (Topol), a milkman who is trying to keep his family's traditions in place while marrying off his three older daughters. Yet, times are changing and the daughters want to make their own matches, breaking free of many of the constricting customs required of them by Judaism. In the background of these ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Vincent Canby The New York Times	"[The creators] have not just opened up the play, they've let most of the life out of it. Not quite all of the life is gone"	NEU
United States	Paul Sargent Clark The Hollywood Reporter	"Aa lavish, carefully made, splendidly designed musical film. It demonstrates once again that ample amounts of time and money, intelligently employed, can indeed buy perfection."	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"It's become so polished, so packaged, so distanced from the real feelings that inspired the original stories (...) that it's become just another pleasant product of American entertainment industrialism (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Variety	"Topol has the necessary combination of bombast and compassion, vitality and doubts"	POS
United Kingdom	Tony Sloman Radio Times	"It's quite long-winded, but it's still a lasting memorial to a great play (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Noel Murray AV Club	"By preserving the exoticism and making sure the audience left the theater humming, Jewison made a grubby, European-flavored movie that Yanks could embrace."	POS
United Kingdom	Caroline Westbrook Empire	"It still stands up as an upbeat portrait of pre-revolutionary Russia, and will have you whistling 'If I Were A Rich Man' for days (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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