fIDDLER ON THE ROOF

The Fiddler On the Roof starts out in a village that has tradition. They have a hebrew school and wear hats on their head for God. the girls work in the fields,sow,iron and cook. The setting is in Russia and the people are jewish. There are strange people in the town but nobody bothers one another they just got their own way. The houses are built of wood and sod. A husband is not to look at a husband is to look at according to the mother.The fiddler on the roof is the 1971 American Film adaptation of the Broadway musical. It was directed by Norman Jewison. The film centers on the family of Tevye, a jewish family living in the town of Anatevka, in Tsarist Russsia, in 1905. Anatevka is broken into 2 sections: a small Orthododx Jewish section and a larger Chrisitan sections. Tevye says "We don't bother them, and so far, they dont' bother us." Tevye is very poor, despite working hard, like others.He and his wife Golde, have 5 daughters and cannot afford to gie themn dowries so they have to rely on the village matchmake to find them husbands. Life in the shtetl of Anatevka is very hard and Tevye speaks of his difficulties of being poor but also of the community's constant fear of harassment from their non-jewish neighbors. The oldesst daughter does not have a husband so the other girls cannot get married because she isn't and she does not have a prospect. so they go to the matchmaker who sets her up with a rich old man. The fiddler appears on a roof because of the Jews' fears and danger. Tevye meet a student with political ideas in town. He invited him to stay at his home with his family, in exchange for perchik tutoring his daughters. The matchmaker, Tevye arranges a marriage for his oldest daughter, Txeitel, to Lazar Wolf a wealthy butcher. Tzeitel is in love with her childhood sweetheart, Motel the tailor, and begs Tevye not to maker her marry and old butcher. He agrees to get tzeitel and tevye out of the agreement with Lazar, tevye claims to have an nightmare, which he repeats to Golde. In the nightmare, he says that Golde's dead grandmother Tzeitel told him that Tzeitel is suppose to marry Motel, as it was decided in heaven. Lazar's late wife, Fruma sarah, warns Tevye that if Tzeitel marries Lazar, she will kill Tzeitel after 3 weeks of marriage. Golde concludes that dream was a message to be follwed from their ancestors, and Tzeitel and Motel arrange to wed. After one of Perchik's lessons with Bielke and Shprintze, tevyes second daughter, Hodel mock Perchik's interpreation of the Bible Story he told her sisters. He in turn criticizes for her hanging on the old traditions of her religion and tells her thta the world is changing. He dances with her becaue the opposites sexes dancing together is considered forbidden to Orthodox Jews.The two fallin in love,and Perchik tells Hodel that they changed in the old tradition. At Tzeitel and Motel's wedding a fight breaks out over whether a girl should be able to choose her own husband. Perchik addresses the crowd and says that since they love eachother, it should be left for the couple to decide and more fights break out due to asking Hodel to dance with him. The 2 begin to dance,, then the crowd warms the idea.The wedding is great joy. The military come and attack the jews and thier property.Perchik prepares to leave Anatevka to work for the revoultguion he proposes to HOdel and she accepts him. When they tell Tevye, he is mad that they decided to marry without his permission. Tevye tells Golde the truth and is prompted to re-evaluate their own arranged marriage.Perchik is arrested in Kiev and is exiled to Siberia. Hodel decides to join him. Tzeitel and Motel are parents and Motel finally buys that sewing machine.Everything is changeing in other towns but not like this.