Author: Topol, Norma Crane, Leonard Frey, Molly Picon,

Format: DVD-Video

Details: COVER BILINGUE - ENGLISH AND FRENCH LANGUAGE AUDIO TRACK Fiddler on the Roof is a musical comedy in two acts by Joseph Stein, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick and music by Jerry Bock, based on the work of Cholem Aleichem.The film opens with Tevye explaining to the audience that what keeps the Jews of Anatevka going is the balance they achieve through following their ancient traditions. He also explains that the lot of the Jews in Russia are as precarious as a fiddler on a roof: trying to scratch out a pleasant tune, while not breaking their necks. The fiddler appears throughout the film as a metaphoric reminder of the Jews' ever-present fears and danger, and also as a symbol of the traditions Tevye is trying to hold onto as his world changes around him. While in town, Tevye meets Perchik, a radical Marxist from kyiv. Tevye invites Perchik to stay with him and his family, and as a deal, offers him food, in exchange for Perchik tutoring his daughters. Created at the Imperial Theater on Broadway on September 22, 1964, the original play had 3,243 performances and won nine Tony Awards in 1965. It has subsequently been performed in several countries, translated into several languages ​​and adapted to the cinema in 1971. A violinist perched on the roof, tries to play a virtuoso air while constantly maintaining his balance (the image is not taken from the novels of Cholem Aleikhem but from the paintings of Marc Chagall): it is what the average Eastern European Jew looks like, living year after year in his small village, sometimes for generations, clinging to his traditions. But times are changing...

UPC: 040201138911

EAN: 0040201138911

Binding: DVD

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