Fiddler on the Roof

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film musical film

Fiddler on the Roof is a classic 1971 musical film adaptation of the Broadway show, depicting the life of a Jewish milkman and his family in a pre-revolutionary Russian village.

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Statements (57)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	film → musical film →
academyAward	Academy Award for Best Cinematography → Academy Award for Best Music, Scoring Adaptation and Original Song Score → Academy Award for Best Sound →
academyAwardNominations	Academy Award for Best Actor → Academy Award for Best Art Direction → Academy Award for Best Costume Design → Academy Award for Best Director → Academy Award for Best Film Editing → Academy Award for Best Picture → Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor →
adaptationOf	Fiddler on the Roof (Broadway musical) →
basedOn	Fiddler on the Roof (stage musical) →
cinematographer	Oswald Morris →
composer	Jerry Bock →
countryOfOrigin	United States →
director	Norman Jewison →
distributor	United Artists →
distributorRegion	theatrical →
editor	Antony Gibbs →
genre	drama film → musical film →
lyricist	Sheldon Harnick →
mainCharacter	Tevye →
musicFeature	Do You Love Me? → If I Were a Rich Man → Matchmaker, Matchmaker → Sunrise, Sunset → To Life → Tradition →
narrativeFocus	Tevye and his daughters →
notableFor	depiction of shtetl life → portrayal of Jewish traditions in Eastern Europe →
originalLanguage	English →
producer	Norman Jewison →
productionCompany	The Mirisch Production Company →
protagonistOccupation	milkman →
releaseDate	1971-11-03 →
releaseYear	1971 →
runtimeMinutes	181 →
screenwriter	Joseph Stein →
settingCountry	Russian Empire →
settingLocation	Anatevka →
settingPeriod	pre-revolutionary Russia →
starredActor	Chaim Topol → Leonard Frey → Michele Marsh → Molly Picon → Neva Small → Norma Crane → Paul Mann → Rosalind Harris →
theme	Jewish family life → persecution and displacement → religious faith → tradition versus change →

Referenced by (11)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Sholem Aleichem → Sholem Rabinovich → Sholom Aleichem →	inspiredWork
Harold Prince → John Williams ("Fiddler on the Roof (film) score") → Norman Jewison →	notableWork
Fiddler on the Roof ("Fiddler on the Roof (Broadway musical)") →	adaptationOf
Lea Michele ("Fiddler on the Roof (Broadway)") →	appearedIn
Fiddler on the Roof ("Fiddler on the Roof (stage musical)") →	basedOn
Norman Jewison →	directed
Minskoff Theatre ("Fiddler on the Roof revival") →	previousProduction