Fiddler on the Roof 1971 123movies

Watch: Fiddler on the Roof 1971 123movies, Full Movie Online – 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. When his third daughter Chava decides to get married with the Christian Fyedka, Tevye does not accept and considers that Chava has died. Meanwhile the Czar troops evict the Jewish community from Anatevka..
Plot: This lavishly produced and critically acclaimed screen adaptation of the international stage sensation tells the life-affirming story of Tevye (Topol), a poor milkman whose love, pride and faith help him face the oppression of turn-of-the-century Czarist Russia. Nominated for eight Academy Awards.
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Without Tradition Our Lives Would Be As Shaky as a Fiddler On the Roof
Solomon/Sholom Rabinowitz was probably the greatest Eastern European Jewish writer (his closest competitor is Issac Peretz). In the late 19th Century, writing as “Sholem Aleichem”, he wrote a huge amount of short stories, novels, and plays. When he supposedly met Mark Twain at the start of the 20th Century, Twain said he was told he was the American “Sholem Aleichem”.

Most people who know of him recall his invention of the character of the philosophical and wry witted dairyman Tevye. Tevye, in his village of Anatevka, is struggling to make a living and raise his seven (not five) daughters with his wife Golde. The short stories not only deal with his philosophical point of view of how God and man (in particular the Jews) coexist, but also how to get the girls married without the financial muscle to give them dowries that are expected.

Joseph Stein’s play for the Broadway musical this film is based on reduces the number of the daughters to five. Actually only the stories of the first three daughters Tzeitel (Rosalind Harris), Hodel (Michele Marsh), and Chava (Neva Small), are given in greater details – because the other two remaining daughters have stories that don’t quite fit in with the film’s conclusion. Shprinze (Elaine Edwards) drowns herself when jilted. Bielke (Candy Bonstein) does marry a millionaire war profiteer (the stories went up to the Russo – Japanese War), and Tevye has a brief period of prosperity (though he loathes the son-in-law as a bullying ignoramus) before the son-in-law’s fortune collapses. In the movie the two girls end up heading for America with their parents.

But Stein’s play manages to get the spirit of Aleichem’s stories across, so that the changes I mentioned are not too important. Tevye (Topol) can’t understand why he is made to struggle daily and never get’s a chance for some prosperity. “You have made so many poor people.”, Tevye says to God. “I realize it is not a crime to be poor…but it’s no great honor either!” There is a chance for Tevye when the local butcher, Lazar Wolf (Paul Mann) reveals he wants to marry Tzeitel. Tevye agrees to the offer of Lazar through the marriage broker Yente (Molly Picon), much to the happiness of his wife Golde (Norma Crane). But Tevye learns that Tzeitel is in love with the village tailor Motel Kamzoil (Leonard Frey). How Tevye gets out of the marriage contract is straight from the original story – it shows how useful the supernatural can sometimes be.

Subsequently Tevye faces the love affair of his second daughter Hodel with the young revolutionary Perchek (Paul Michael Glaser), who ends up getting sent to Siberia (whither Hodel follows him). And then comes the third daughter, Chava, who falls for Fyedka (Ray Lovelock), which ends in a peculiar tragedy for Tevye – Fyedka is Christian, and when they marry it is in a Russo Orthodox ceremony. Tevye’s love for his faith and tradition – the backbone of Jewish existence that Tevye insists on – causes him to renounce his living third daughter as dead to the family.

The collapsing days of the old Romanov Empire are illustrated, showing the use of official anti-Semitism as a manner of controlling the situation (it really didn’t help much). As the viciousness of the old regime towards Jews ends the film with the forced removal of Tevye and his people from their lands. And the only thing to do is head for America or Poland or Israel – any place but Russia.

The play/musical’s numbers are well done, as are the violin solos played by Isaac Stern. Topol was a fine Tevye – although one misses seeing Zero Mostel’s great performance there are some television sequences of Zero singing “If I were a rich man” that give us an idea of what he was like in the role. Topol emphasizes the even tempered, realist who is Tevye, who has a heart, sorely injured at times. He is abetted by his wife, a role well played by Crane. Molly Picon has a good time as that yente Yente, who is constantly trying to make a living making arranged marriages. Leonard Frey is fine as Motel, singing “Wonder of Wonders”. Also note Louis Zorich as the local police constable, who has a “decent” relationship with Tevye, but who finds it collapse when ordered to force the Jews from the village (Topol puts him in his place quite well here). This film was a brilliant example of how to film a musical classic, and make a classic movie musical at the same time.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 3 hr 1 min (181 min)
Budget 9000000
Revenue 83304330
Status Released
Rated G
Genre Drama, Family, Musical
Director Norman Jewison
Writer Sholom Aleichem, Arnold Perl, Joseph Stein
Actors Topol, Norma Crane, Leonard Frey
Country United States
Awards Won 3 Oscars. 9 wins & 13 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix 70 mm 6-Track (Westrex Recording System) (70 mm prints), Mono (35 mm prints), Stereo (35 mm mag-optical prints)
Aspect Ratio 2.20 : 1 (70 mm prints), 2.35 : 1
Camera Panavision PSR R-200, Panavision C-Series Lenses (uncredited)
Laboratory Technicolor (colour by) (as Technicolor®)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Panavision (anamorphic) (as Panavision®)
Printed Film Format 35 mm (Kodak), 35 mm, 70 mm (blow-up)