In the adult animated musical drama film american pop set during imperial russia during the late 1890s a rabbi s wife and her young son zalmie escape to america while the rabbi is.
Fiddler on the roof cossacks.
The jews were definitely persecuted in russia then.
Fiddler on the roof 1971 cast and crew credits including actors actresses directors writers and more.
The famous broadway musical and film fiddler on the roof showed the cruelty of the russian pogroms on the jews in the fictional anatevka in the early 20th century.
I ve read a lot about that period but not specifically about the jews.
It is based on tevye and his daughters or tevye the dairyman and other tales by sholem aleichem the story centers on tevye the father of five daughters and his attempts to maintain his jewish religious and.
I think that fiddler on the roof was quite accurate.
With topol norma crane leonard frey molly picon.
I can imagine that cossacks would have broken up weddings like that and they were very fearsome.