Tevye Fiddler On The Roof Movie Cast

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Tevye fiddler on the roof movie cast. The original non musical film version of the book which inspired fiddler on the roof. Cast in credits order complete awaiting verification. Zero mostel was out as tevye and israeli actor chaim topol or just topol was in based largely on jewison seeing him in the role of tevye in the london stage production of fiddler. Directed by maurice schwartz.

And his five daughters with the help of a colorful and tight knit jewish community tevye tries to fiddler on the roof synopsis at the beginning of the twentieth century jews and orthodox christians live in the. Fiddler on the roof is based on the book tevye and his daughters by sholem aleichem. With maurice schwartz miriam riselle rebecca weintraub paula lubelski. Cast with a good balance.

The cast included zero mostel as tevye the milkman maria karnilova as his wife golde each of whom won a tony for their performances beatrice arthur as yente the matchmaker austin pendleton as motel bert convy as perchik the student revolutionary gino conforti as the fiddler and julia migenes as hodel. Mostel ad libbed increasingly as the run went on which drove the authors up the wall. The classic musical tells the story of a jewish family living in a pre revolutionary russian village. As tevye golde and their two youngest daughters leave the village for america folm fiddler begins to play.

Starring topol norma crane leonard frey molly picon and paul mann the film centers on tevye the father of five daughters and his attempts to maintain his jewish religious and cultural traditions as outside influences encroach upon the family s lives. The fifth broadway revival began previews on november 20 and opened on december 20 at the broadway theatrewith concept and choreography based on the original by jerome robbins.