Fiddlers Journey to the Big Screen (2022)

The fall of 2021 marked the 50th anniversary of Fiddler on the Roof the film Pauline Kael The New Yorker called the most powerful movie musical ever made Narrated by Jeff Goldblum FIDDLERS JOURNEY TO THE BIG SCREEN captures the humor and drama of director Norman Jewisons quest to recreate the lost world of Jewish life in Tsarist Russia and reenvision the beloved stage hit as a widescreen epic Oscarnominated filmmaker Daniel Raim puts us in the directors chair and in Jewisons heart and mind drawing on behindthescenes footage and neverbeforeseen stills as well as original interviews with Jewison Topol Tevye composer John Williams production designer Robert F Boyle film critic Kenneth Turan lyricist Sheldon Harnick and actresses Rosalind Harris Michele Marsh and Neva Small Tevyes daughters The film explores how the experience of making Fiddler deepened Jewison as an artist and revived his soul