Fiddler On the Roof
Movie • 1971 • Drama
ReportThis lavishly produced and critically acclaimed screen adaptation of the international stage sensation tells the life-affirming story of Tevye (Topol), a poor milkman whose love, pride and faith help him face the oppression of turn-of-the-century Czarist Russia. Nominated for eight Academy Awards.
This movie contains 17 potentially triggering events.
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Is a child abandoned by a parent?
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Adult child is cut off from parents
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Nothing on-screen, but the lyrics include this stanza about a (wholly hypothetical) future husband:
You heard he has a temper.
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You heard he has a temper.
He'll beat you every night,
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Does the abused become the abuser?
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In one scene, all the male characters get drunk together. The next morning, they are hung over and regretful.
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A horse goes lame, but is well treated and recovers by the end of the movie.
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There is some talk of slaughtering a milk-cow, but it never happens.
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Very brief scenes of dead animals being prepared for food - inside a butcher’s shop with meat hanging on the walls, a woman scaling a fish, etc.
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There is a scene where some peasants surround a teen-age girl, and there is a strong suggestion they intend to rape her, but they are chased off by the girl’s suitor.
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There is a brief scene where Russian soldiers on horses rush at a crowd of people to get them to disperse. Some people are knocked down by the horses or other people. It is not explicit whether anyone in the scene dies.
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A character is arrested and sent to Siberia, but his fiancée is allowed to accompany him.
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In a fantasy sequence, ghost-like dead are shown rising from the grave. They sing a scary song and terrorize the protagonist.
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Miming of spitting - Yiddish superstitious folkway
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It’s rural Russia, c. 1905. No black guys.
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A policeman says to the Jewish protagonist, “You are a good man, considering you are a Jew.” The protagonist responds, “You are a good man, too bad you are not a Jew.”
Later, the protagonist severely criticizes his daughter for marrying a gentile and disowns her.
Later, the protagonist severely criticizes his daughter for marrying a gentile and disowns her.
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Tevye arranges a marriage between his 19-year-old daughter and a much older man but he changes his mind and they do not end up getting married
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Judaism is a major topic of discussion throughout the film.
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Spoiler: all the Jewish people are exiled from the area the movie ends with them carrying all their belongings to emigrate elsewhere
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No gun violence, but physical violence and violence with torches during the pogrom. No blood or gore is shown.
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