Fiddler's Journey to the Big Screen

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 lost world of Jewish life in Tsarist Russia as well as re-envision the beloved stage hit as a wide-screen epic. Oscar-nominated doc filmmaker Daniel Raim puts us in the director's chair and in Jewison's heart and mind, drawing on behind-the-scenes footage and never-before-seen stills as well as original interviews with Jewison, Topol (Tevye), composer John Williams, production designer Robert F. Boyle, film critic Kenneth Turan, lyricist Sheldon Harnick, and the actresses Rosalind Harris, Michele Marsh, and Neva Small (as Tevye's daughters). The doc film explores how the experience of making Fiddler deepened Jewison as an artist and revived his soul.