Fiddlers Journey to the Big Screen 2022 The Fall of 2021 marked the 50th anniversary of Fiddler on the Roof, the film Pauline Kael of The New Yorker called the most powerful movie musical ever made Narrated by Jeff Goldblum, FIDDLERS JOURNEY TO THE BIG SCREEN captures the humor and drama of director Norman Jewisons quest to recreate the lost world of Jewish life in Tsarist Russia and re envision the beloved stage hit as a wide screen epic Oscar nominated filmmaker Daniel Raim puts us in the directors chair and in Jewisons heart and mind, drawing on rare behind the scenes footage, original storyboards, and never before seen stills as well as original interviews with Norman Jewison, Topol Tevye, composer John Williams, production designer Robert F Boyle, film critic Kenneth Turan, lyricist Sheldon Harnick, and actresses Rosalind Harris, Michele Marsh, and Neva Small Tevyes daughters The film explores how the experience of making Fiddler deepens Jewison as an artist and revives his soul