Fiddler's Journey to the Big Screen
In the fall of2021, Fiddler on the Roof turned 50 years old. The film was hailed as "the most compelling movie musical ever made" by Pauline Kael (The New Yorker). This film, FIDDLER'S JOURNEY TO THE BIG SCREEN, narrated by Jeff Goldblum, re-imagines the iconic stage success as a wide-screen epic and captures the humor and drama of filmmaker Norman Jewison's effort to restore the lost world of Jewish life in Tsarist Russia. Using behind-the-scenes footage, unseen stills, and new interviews with Jewison, Topol (Tevye), John Williams (composer), Robert F. Boyle (production designer), Kenneth Turan (film critic), Sheldon Harnick (lyricist), and Rosalind Harris (Michele), Marsh (actress), and Neva Small (actress) (Tevye's daughters), Oscar-nominated filmmaker Daniel Raim puts us in the director The video delves into how the process of developing Fiddler enriched Jewison as an artist and gave him new life.
Released: 2022-04-29
Genre:
Documentary