Fiddler On The Roof Those Were The Days

With topol norma crane leonard frey molly picon.

Fiddler on the roof those were the days. In prerevolutionary russia a jewish peasant contends with marrying off three of his daughters while growing anti semitic sentiment threatens his village. It deals with reminiscence upon youth and romantic idealism. Fiddler on the roof is a 1971 american epic musical comedy drama film produced and directed by norman jewison it is an adaptation of the 1964 broadway musical of the same name with music composed by jerry bock lyrics by sheldon harnick and screenplay by joseph stein and based on stories by sholem aleichem starring topol norma crane leonard frey molly picon and paul mann the film. Those were the days is a song credited to gene raskin who put a new english lyric to the russian romance song dorogoi dlinnoyu дорогой длинною literally by the long road composed by boris fomin 1900 1948 with words by the poet konstantin podrevsky.

Fiddler on the roof i have seen the film fiddler on the roof many times and i have read the stories of tevye the milkman also many times over. The movie was my first experience with the performance so i am quite biased towards this version compared to the original broadway show staring zero mostel. Fiddler on the roof is by far my favorite musical and i think that this recording captures the essence of the show perfectly. With maurice schwartz miriam riselle rebecca weintraub paula lubelski.

Directed by norman jewison. From 1880 to 1920 when there was a political social crisis the russian government would incite the population against the jews trying to divert its attention from the real problems. I think that shalom alechem was writing how he felt that the jews of the shtetl were like in those times as in fact my grandparents were as they emerged from the back of beyond in russia and poland. The original non musical film version of the book which inspired fiddler on the roof.

Directed by maurice schwartz.