This Academy-Award winning film is humorous and features fine performances, especially from the star Topol who plays Tevye the milkman. The film focuses on his difficult life as a poor man and his three daughters who fall in love with three men whom he wouldn’t have chosen for them. But does he let his daughters marry whom they wish? He has always believed in keeping balance by tradition, but soon some of the traditions are challenged. He also has the military to deal with, men who would be rid of the Jews once and for all.
In one of the many humorous moments in the film he is asked how the traditions got started and he replies, “How did they get started? I will tell you…I don’t know!” When one daughter complains that one former suitor was so old he had no hair, the mother replies, “You want hair? Marry a monkey!” The film is imaginative and still holds up well today, which reinforces its reputation as a classic. It has a little bit of everything including romance, great songs, action, humor and spirituality.
We are happy to award this classic film our Dove “Family-Approved” Seal. The fiddler is still on that roof…and this is still a great movie!
