Director:

Norman Jewison

Writer:

Joseph Stein

Country:

USA

Release Year:

1971

Duration:

3 h 01 min

Actors: Chaim Topol Norma Crane Leonard Frey Molly Picon Paul Mann Rosalind Harris Michele Marsh Neva Small Paul Michael Glaser Ray Lovelock Elaine Edwards Candy Bonstein Shimen Ruskin Zvee Scooler Louis Zorich Alfie Scopp Howard Goorney Barry Dennen Vernon Dobtcheff Ruth Madoc Patience Collier

Synopsis: 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.