The autumn of 2021 marked the fiftieth anniversary of Fiddler on the Roof, the movie Pauline Kael (The New Yorker) referred to as "probably the most highly effective film 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 misplaced world of Jewish life in Tsarist Russia and re-envision the beloved stage hit as a wide-screen epic. Oscar-nominated filmmaker Daniel Raim places us within the director's chair and in Jewison's coronary heart and thoughts, drawing on behind-the-scenes footage and never-before-seen stills in addition to authentic interviews with Jewison, Topol (Tevye), composer John Williams, manufacturing designer Robert F. Boyle, movie critic Kenneth Turan, lyricist Sheldon Harnick, and actresses Rosalind Harris, Michele Marsh, and Neva Small (Tevye’s daughters). The movie explores how the expertise of constructing Fiddler deepened Jewison as an artist and revived his soul.
