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.
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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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In one scene, all the male characters get drunk together. The next morning, they are hung over and regretful.
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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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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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The regional government’s representative (who calls the Jewish characters "those Christ-killers") forces the local police to stage an anti-semitic pogrom.
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It’s rural Russia, c. 1905. No black guys.
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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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If you look into it, yes - Grandma Tzeitel, who is featured as a ghost in the dream sequence and is established as Golde’s grandmother, is both Tzeitel’s great grandmother and Motel’s (Tzeitel and Motel are a couple). Motel was named after Grandma Tzeitel’s uncle Mordechai. In the Jewish tradition, parents name their children after dead family members, even further implying that Motel and Tzeitel have the same great grandmother.
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