Fiddler on the Roof

Fiddler on the Roof depicts the struggles of a Jewish family in Imperial Russia, including traditional arranged marriages, societal changes, anti-Semitic violence, and their eventual displacement from the village due to government order. Fiddler on the Roof is a 1971 American English-language Drama Family movie starring Topol, Norma Crane, Leonard Frey, Molly Picon, Paul Mann, Rosalind Harris and George Oliver. The movie is inspired from Fiddler on the Roof by Joseph Stein Jerry Bock Sheldon Harnick Tevye and His Daughters by Sholem Aleichem. The Mirisch Production Company was the production house involved in the project along with executive producer(s) Norman Jewison. Fiddler on the Roof is written by Sholom Aleichem, Arnold Perl and Joseph Stein and it is directed by Norman Jewison. United Artists acquired the distribution rights for the motion picture. Fiddler on the Roof was released on 3rd November 1971 and takes a screen time of 179 minutes. The Film was successful at box office. Fiddler on the Roof was made on a budget of $9 million and it was a super hit at box office gross of $83 million. The screenplay for the movie was written by Joseph Stein. Cinematography was done by Oswald Morris and editing by Antony Gibbs and Robert Lawrence. The music was composed by Jerry Bock along with John Williams. At the 1972 Oscar Awards It won 3 awards including: Best Cinematography, Best Sound and Best Music, Scoring Adaptation and Original Song Score.