Fiddler's Journey to the Big Screen (DVD)
Winner of the Audience Award at the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival
The fall of 2021 marked the 50th anniversary of Fiddler on the Roof, the film Pauline Kael (The New Yorker) called "the most powerful movie musical ever made." Narrated by Jeff Goldblum, FIDDLER'S JOURNEY TO THE BIG SCREEN captures the humor and drama of director Norman Jewison's quest to recreate the lost world of Jewish life in Tsarist Russia and re-envision the beloved stage hit as a wide-screen epic.
Oscar-nominated filmmaker Daniel Raim puts us in the director's chair and in Jewison's heart and mind, drawing on behind-the-scenes footage and never-before-seen stills as well as original interviews with Jewison, Topol (Tevye), composer John Williams, production designer Robert F. Boyle, film critic Kenneth Turan, lyricist Sheldon Harnick, and actresses Rosalind Harris, Michele Marsh, and Neva Small (Tevye’s daughters).
The film explores how the experience of making Fiddler deepened Jewison as an artist and revived his soul.
This film is now in theaters, a Zeitgeist Films release in association with Kino Lorber.
• The Man on Lincoln’s Nose: Daniel Raim’s Oscar®-nominated short about production designer Robert F. Boyle, featuring Norman Jewison
• Additional interviews with John Williams, Topol, Rosalind Harris, Neva Small, and Sheldon Harnick
• Film researcher Lillian Michelson on the undergarments used in Fiddler (excerpt from Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story)
- Daniel Raim - Director
- Jeff Goldblum - Narrator
- Norman Jewison - Himself
- Topol - Himself
- John Williams - Himself
- Sheldon Harnick - Himself
- Kenneth Turan - Himself
- Rosalind Harris - Herself
- Michele Marsh - Herself
- Neva Small - Herself
- Robert F. Boyle - Himself
Awards
Winner of the Audience Award at the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival
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