Review of Fiddler on the Roof (1971) by Fred V — 06 Nov 2015

A film that rings in the heart of every Jew. The wonderful quality of this film is not necessarily found on the surface but in the subtleties and the "small lines. The timing of the story itself and the eerie references to "future" historical events makes one think.

One such scene is where the shunned daughter and her husband are leaving the village along with the expelled Jews, because they "cannot stay in a place where people do such things to each other. Where are they headed? Krakow, Poland, where in about 30 years their concerns would be wrought out on a much larger, genocidal, scale.

This movie never gets old.