Fiddler on the roof [videorecording] / the Mirisch Production Company presents a Norman Jewison film ; screenplay by Joseph Stein ; produced and directed by Norman Jewison.
Format:
[videorecording] /
Edition:
2-disc collector's ed.
Publisher:
Distributed by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment,
Title from container. Topol, Norma Crane, Leonard Frey, Molly Picon, Paul Mann. Originally produced for the New York stage by Harold Prince ; entire stage production directed and choreographed by Jerome Robbins ; based on the stage play "Fiddler on the roof" ; adapted from Sholom Aleichem ; stories by special arrangement with Arnold Perl. Originally released as a motion picture in 1971. Special features: Disc one: Audio commentary by director/producer Norman Jewison and actor Topol ; Disc two: "John Williams: creating a musical tradition" featurette; "Tevye's daughters" featurette; "Set in reality: production design" featurette; "Songs of 'Fiddler on the roof': featurette; "Norman Jewison looks back" featurette; "Tevye's dream sequence": original print and full color side-by-side comparison and an introduction by Norman Jewison; "Norman Jewison, filmmaker" documentary; historical background: read by Norman Jewison with photographs by Ann Weiss; "The stories of Sholom Aleichem" read by Norman Jewison; deleted song "Any day now"; production design and storyboards; photographic production diary.
Summary:
Tevye is a poor milkman in czarist Russia, where he provides for five unmarried daughters and a sharp-tongued wife. Faced with mounting financial strain and growing anti-Semitism, Tevye strives to maintain balance despite the precarious nature of his situation.
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