If i were a rich man.
Fiddler on the roof townsman.
Fiddler on the roof 1971 cast and crew credits including actors actresses directors writers and more.
In prerevolutionary russia a jewish peasant contends with marrying off three of his daughters while growing anti semitic sentiment threatens his village.
It is based on tevye and his daughters or tevye the dairyman and other tales by sholem aleichem.
Israeli actor topol repeats his london stage role as tevye the milkman whose equilibrium is constantly being challenged by his poverty the prejudicial attitudes of non jews and the romantic entanglements of his five daughters.
Fiddler on the roof is a musical with music by jerry bock lyrics by sheldon harnick and book by joseph stein set in the pale of settlement of imperial russia in or around 1905.