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The movie tells the life-affirming story of Tevye (Topol), a Jewish poor milkman who contends with marrying off three of his daughters while growing antisemitic sentiment threatens his village in prerevolutionary Russia.
There's a vibrant nature to the acting in this film that warms the heart and makes it feel comfortable, even when things aren't going so great for the characters.
They want to show us everything, to give us our money's worth. In so doing, they've not just opened up the play, they've let most of the life out of it.
May 09, 2005
Total Film
The choreography is clumsy, the acting caricatured, and the songs themselves painfully overblown.
Sentimental in a theatrical way, romantic in the oldfashioned way, nostalgic of immigration days, affirmative of human decency, loyalty, bravery and folk humor.
What could have been a brilliant film experience, expanding on the stage version as only film can, ends up instead as a series of wonderful bits and pieces.
There are some contrived and artificial moments in Fiddler, but it becomes more convincing, naturalistic, and involving as it goes on, and finally builds to a powerful climax.