Film · United Artists · 1971
Pass it on
Fiddler on the Roof
78Worth an evening.
Put it on for the father and the daughters, and stay for the town that does not survive.
The review
A dairyman in a Jewish village has three daughters who will not marry the way he was told marriage works. Tradition is the song and the argument. He talks to God as if God is in the room. The house is not a warm opening. It is the point.
Pogroms come, then an order to leave, and the town does not survive. Long, and too harsh at the edges for little children. For everyone else it is one to put on and talk through: a father bending, a God he will not stop addressing, a people told to go. The songs do not cancel the order. They are how the order hurts.
Journal
Keep Fiddler on the Roof in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 78. Yours can differ.
The glance
Stewardship is the thin one.
What is left for the people who come after — a place, a craft, a name?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
The eight
- 7Industry
He is a dairyman, and the village runs on ordinary work until it is scattered.
- 9Household
Three daughters and the marriages they will accept are the life of the house.
- 9Piety
He talks to God as if God is in the room and might answer.
- 8Courage
The daughters refuse the old matches, then the family faces pogroms and exile.
- 8Republic
The village is a people bound together, and an order to leave ends it.
- 7Temperance
Tradition tries to order marriage, and the songs do not sneer at the trying.
- 8Truth
He argues with God and with his daughters instead of pretending nothing changed.
- 6Stewardship
The town does not survive, and a family is left to carry what it can.
Where to watch
Finding the page.
Live Historic · Fiddler on the Roof · 78IMDb
