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Fiddler on the roof / The Mirisch Production Company presents a Norman Jewison film ; screenplay by Joseph Stein ; produced and directed by Norman Jewison.
LIBRA DVD 009 443
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- Sholem Aleichem, 1859-1916, author.
- Language:
- English
- French
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Sholem Aleichem, 1859-1916--Film adaptations.
- Sholem Aleichem.
- Sholem Aleichem, 1859-1916.
- Jews--Ukraine--Social life and customs--Drama.
- Jews.
- Manners and customs.
- Ukraine.
- Genre:
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Feature films.
- Drama.
- Film adaptations.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (179 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Edition:
- Special edition ; Widescreen.
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Monica, CA : MGM Home Entertainment, [2001]
- Language Note:
- In English with subtitles in English, French and Spanish.
- Closed-captioned.
- System Details:
- DVD; Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack.
- digital
- optical
- Dolby digital 5.1
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- Tevye is a poor Jewish milkman with five unmarried daughters to support in a village in Czarist Russia. With a sharp tongued wife at home and growing anti-Semitism in the village, Tevye talks to God about his troubles. His people's traditions keep him strong when his existence is as precariously balanced as a fiddler on the roof.
- Participant:
- Topol, Norma Crane, Leonard Frey, Molly Picon, Paul Mann.
- Credits:
- Photography, Oswald Morris ; editors, Antony Gibbs, Robert Lawrence ; soloist, Isaac Stern ; music by Jerry Bock ; lyrics by Sheldon Harnick.
- Notes:
- Based on the stage play by Joseph Stein, adapted from the stories of Sholem Aleichem ; music adapted and conducted by John Williams.
- Originally produced as a motion picture in 1971.
- Special features: "Norman Jewison, filmmaker" documentary, audio commentary by Norman Jewison and Topol, never-before-available deleted song "Any day now", "Tevye's dream" in full color, stories of Sholom Aleichem and historical background read by Norman Jewison, and storyboard to film comparison.
- ISBN:
- 0792850998
- OCLC:
- 48094407
- Publisher Number:
- 027616867674
- 1002566 MGM Home Entertainment
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