Director – and AFI Honorary Degree recipient – Norman Jewison’s rousing film adaptation of the beloved Broadway musical, FIDDLER ON THE ROOF (1971) stars Topol as Tevye – a poor Jewish dairyman in Czarist Russia whose daughters wish to break with tradition by marrying for love rather than by arrangement. Scored by AFI Life Achievement Award honoree John Williams, the film appears on the American Film Institute’s list of the 100 most inspiring films in cinema history.
Visit the AFI Catalog to learn more about FIDDLER ON THE ROOF.
