***TCM Schedule for Friday, March 25, 2022
8:00 PM -- ***Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
3h | Musical | TV-G
Before the Russian revolution, a Jewish milkman tries to marry off his daughters who have plans of their own.
Director: Norman Jewison
Cast: Topol, Norma Crane, Leonard Frey
Winner of Oscars for Best Cinematography -- Oswald Morris, Best Sound -- Gordon K. McCallum and David Hildyard, and Best Music, Scoring Adaptation and Original Song Score -- John Williams
Nominee for Oscars for Best Actor in a Leading Role -- Topol, Best Actor in a Supporting Role -- Leonard Frey, Best Director -- Norman Jewison, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration -- Robert F. Boyle, Michael Stringer and Peter Lamont, and Best Picture
*Perchik is a student revolutionary from Kiev, who is strident and condescending with the villagers about their apathy towards world events. But it's never explained why he's in their obscure, and remote little village, 400 to 500 miles away. It is possible that he was there hiding from the authorities. He could also have been in the settlements recruiting members for the revolution.