Fiddler on the Roof is a 1971 American musical comedy-drama film produced and directed by Norman Jewison. The film was released to critical acclaim and won three Academy Awards, including Best Music. The film was shoot in a real village, only the pub scene was shoot in a studio.

At the beginning of the 20th century, Jews and Orthodox Christians live in the little village of Anatevka in the revolutionary Russia of the Czars. Among the traditions of the Jewish community, the matchmaker arranges the match and the father approves it. The milkman Reb Tevye is a poor man that has been married for 25 years with Golde and they have five daughters. When the matchmaker Yente arranges the match between his older daughter Tzeitel and the old butcher Lazar Wolf, Tevye agrees with the wedding. However Tzeitel is in love with the poor tailor Motel and they ask permission to Tevye to get married that he accepts to please his daughter. Then his second daughter Hodel and the revolutionary student Perchik decide to marry each other and Tevye is forced to accept. The police exile Perchik to Siberia. Hodel follows him there.