Review by co-editor Carl Eastvold
MOVIE REVIEW
Starring: Chaim Topol, Norma Crane, Leonard Frey
Director: Norman Jewison
Genre: Musical/Historical
Setting: Jewish Pale/ pre-revolutionary Russia
Length: 181 minutes
Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆
This movie, with its themes of family, love, and religious tradition, is a classic. Tevya, a small farmer and milkman has five daughters, three of an age to be married. How the daughters find love is the backbone of the story, while Tevya's ongoing conversation with the Almighty is a close second.
The musical numbers in the movie are incredible and unforgettable. The Sabbath Prayer will tug at the heart strings of people of any faith, and the bottle dance during the wedding sequence is powerful and unforgettable. I would not hesitate to watch this movie again and again.
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