A Reform and Conservative Synagogue Serving the Rivertowns
A Reform and Conservative Synagogue Serving the Rivertowns
At the beginning of the 20th Century, there is a little village of Anatevka in the pre-revolutionary Russia of the Czars. It is a tradition in the community that the matchmaker arranges the marriage and the father approves it. The milkman, Tevye (Topol), is a poor man, married twenty-five years to Golde (Norma Crane) and they have five daughters. Tevye attempts to maintain his family and Jewish traditions while outside influences encroach upon their lives. He must cope with both the strong-willed actions of his three oldest daughters (as each one’s choice of husband moves her farther away from the customs of his faith) and with the edict of the Czar, that evicts the Jews from their village.
MGM, 1971, 181 min., Rated G
