Fiddler's Journey to the Big Screen

Jeff Goldblum
Norman Jewison
Topol
John Williams
Sheldon Harnick
Kenneth Turan
Rosalind Harris
Michele Marsh
Neva Small
Robert F. Boyle

Directed by Daniel Raim

Winner of the Audience Award at the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival

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, FIDDLER'S JOURNEY TO THE BIG SCREEN captures the humor and drama of director Norman Jewison's quest to recreate the lost world of Jewish life in Tsarist Russia and re-envision the beloved stage hit as a wide-screen epic.

Oscar-nominated filmmaker Daniel Raim puts us in the director's chair and in Jewison's heart and mind, drawing on behind-the-scenes footage and never-before-seen 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 (Tevye’s daughters).

The film explores how the experience of making Fiddler deepened Jewison as an artist and revived his soul.

This film opens April 29 in theaters and is a Zeitgeist Films release in association with Kino Lorber.