Fiddler On The Roof Cossacks

Fiddler on the roof 1971 cast and crew credits including actors actresses directors writers and more.

Fiddler on the roof cossacks. It is based on tevye and his daughters or tevye the dairyman and other tales by sholem aleichem the story centers on tevye the father of five daughters and his attempts to maintain his jewish religious and. In the adult animated musical drama film american pop set during imperial russia during the late 1890s a rabbi s wife and her young son zalmie escape to america while the rabbi is. I ve read a lot about that period but not specifically about the jews. Directed by norman jewison.

The jews were definitely persecuted in russia then. In prerevolutionary russia a jewish peasant contends with marrying off three of his daughters while growing anti semitic sentiment threatens his village. With topol norma crane leonard frey molly picon. The famous broadway musical and film fiddler on the roof showed the cruelty of the russian pogroms on the jews in the fictional anatevka in the early 20th century.