Video review of Fiddler on the Roof

This film was nominated for 8 Oscars at the 44th Academy Awards, and finally won 3 awards for Best Cinematography, Best Sound and Best Original Music. Its stage play of the same name has been performed on Broadway for 3,000 times. The remaining performances are twice as many as the performances of "The Sound of Music". The film is set in the Ukrainian countryside in the early 20th century and tells the story of the Tevye family, a Jewish farmer. Tevye's three daughters have all reached the age of marriage. Tevye and them had a series of conflicts over the choice of husbands. During the development of the conflicts, the incident coincided with the tsar's expulsion of the Jews. In the end, they Forced to leave the Jewish village where they had lived for many years.

The film does not use heavy pen and ink to depict the tragic fate of the Jewish nation. On the contrary, Tevey's deep-seated sense of humor often makes the audience smile. Mastering this "laughing with tears" style requires artistic skill. From this perspective, "House" is similar to Berto Bellini's "Life is Beautiful". The performance of the protagonist Tevye in the film was extremely accurate and accurate by Topol (nominated for Best Actor at the Oscar that year). On the one hand, he is upright, kind, traditional and conservative, with deep religious feelings and national dignity. On the other hand, he is optimistic. Humorous, adaptable, and full of tolerance and understanding for the younger generation. In the history of musicals, "House" is unique, and the artistic and ideological heights it has reached have been unrivaled for a long time.

The music in the film was composed by Broadway composer Jerry Bock, integrating a large number of Jewish and Russian musical elements, and the choreography was by Broadway's leading dance master Jerome Robbins ( Jerome Robbins (who led his dance troupe to China in 1982), and the violin genius Isaac Stern's performance make this DVD a must-see for musical theater fans.

One sentence review:

The most perfect musical! The violinist plays on the roof, grasping the delicate balance between tradition and change while swinging, and maintains childlike happiness while wandering without landing; no matter where he wanders, the music flowing out of the violin is always towards love and toward love. God!