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Fiddler on the roof [videorecording] /

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmSpoken language: English, French, Spanish Publication details: Beverly Hills, Calif. : Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2006]Edition: 2-disc collector's edDescription: 2 videodiscs (181 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inUniform titles:
  • Fiddler on the roof (Motion picture)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • [Fic] 813/.52 22
LOC classification:
  • PN1997 .F53 2006
Online resources:
Contents:
Disc 1. Feature film -- disc 2. Special features.
Production credits:
  • Director of photography, Oswald Morris ; editors, Antony Gibbs, Robert Lawrence ; original choreography by Jerome Robbins ; adapted by Tom Abbott ; soloist, Isaac Stern ; music, Jerry Bock ; lyrics, Sheldon Harnick ; music adapted and conducted by John Williams.
Cast: Topol, Norma Crane, Leonard Frey, Molly Picon, Paul Mann, Rosalind Harris, Michele Marsh, Neva Small, Michael Glaser, Raymond Lovelock, Zvee Scooler, Louis Zorich.Summary: Tevye is a poor Jewish milkman with five unmarried daughters to support in a village in Czarist Russia. With a sharp tongued wife at home and growing anti-Semitism in the village, Tevye talks to God about his troubles. His people's traditions keep him strong when his existence is as precariously balanced as a fiddler on the roof.
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VID VID Chamberlin Free Public Library Video DVD FID (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 34517000268063

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1971.

Based on the stage play by Joseph Stein, adapted from the stories of Sholem Aleichem.

Special features, disc 1: Audio commentary by director/producer Norman Jewison and actor Topol. disc 2: Featurettes: John Williams: creating a musical tradition; Tevye's daughters; Set in reality production design; Songs of Fiddler on the roof; Historical background: read by Norman Jewison with photographs by Ann Weiss; Norman Jewison, filmmaker / National Film Board of Canada ; director, Douglas Jackson (1971; 49 min.); Norman Jewison looks back; Tevye's dream in full color; The stories of Sholom Aleichem, read by Norman Jewison. Deleted song, "Any day now"; Production design and storyboards; still gallery, trailers & tv spots.

Disc 1. Feature film -- disc 2. Special features.

Director of photography, Oswald Morris ; editors, Antony Gibbs, Robert Lawrence ; original choreography by Jerome Robbins ; adapted by Tom Abbott ; soloist, Isaac Stern ; music, Jerry Bock ; lyrics, Sheldon Harnick ; music adapted and conducted by John Williams.

Topol, Norma Crane, Leonard Frey, Molly Picon, Paul Mann, Rosalind Harris, Michele Marsh, Neva Small, Michael Glaser, Raymond Lovelock, Zvee Scooler, Louis Zorich.

Tevye is a poor Jewish milkman with five unmarried daughters to support in a village in Czarist Russia. With a sharp tongued wife at home and growing anti-Semitism in the village, Tevye talks to God about his troubles. His people's traditions keep him strong when his existence is as precariously balanced as a fiddler on the roof.

MPAA rating: G.

DVD, NTSC; region 1; widescreen (2.35:1) presentation; Dolby Digital.

English, French or Spanish dialogue with optional subtitles in English or Spanish; closed-captioned.

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