Fiddler on the Roof (Collector's Edition)
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Actor: Leonard Frey, Molly Picon, Norma Crane, Paul Mann, TopolBrand: JEWISON,NORMAN
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; Hebrew (Original Language); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: AC-3, Collector's Edition, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 181 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-01-23
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Movie Reviews of Fiddler on the Roof (Collector's Edition)
Movie Review: Is the grass really greener on the other side of the road?
Summary: 5 Stars
A myth in the cinema. It was the time when the Jews were trying to get out of the Soviet Union where private economic initiative was totally impossible and where the Jews were shown as being unpatriotic people. That's what the film is showing with two directions for the expelled Jews: the USA and Israel. But the film is a lot more interesting than that. It shows how traditions are lethal. Traditions kill any initiative and change in any social group, in any society. It kills the possibility to remain open onto the world. It kills the possibility to accept human feelings as more important than match making or whatever other alliances. And at the same time it shows that everyday joys, and pleasures, and celebrations come from a tradition and that tradition has to be kept alive but to keep it alive you need to change it. One of these traditions is that the Jews have been on the run for twenty-one centuries, at least without counting their slavery in Egypt and their captivity in Babylon. And yet the film is also looking at the Jews with some kind of irony, humor, sarcasm, maybe even more. It makes fun of their constantly quoting the Book, of there constantly going back to God and praying, of their constantly seeing themselves as an elected people and as the favorite victim of God. It turns funny quite often, though it is tragic all along. It shows how hard but also easy it is for a people to accept to move on, to be kicked out of where they are. It shows how it is satisfying a deep desire to move somewhere else, that deep part of all human beings since the human species is a migrating species and has always been, and at the same time it shows how it is frustrating the other dimension of the human species which is to stabilize in one place, to grow roots somewhere and branches from these roots, and yet only to produce a new generation that will move on. So the film is nostalgic, a nostalgic celebration of the Jewish Diaspora, but as a reflection of the human Diaspora that has become so difficult today with visas and all kinds of barriers to cross in order to get on the other side of the road because the grass is always greener on the other side of the road. But when this side is locked up with barbed wire and walls and guards and weapons, the grass on the other side is really greener, though the fight for survival should be the objective on this side of the road. Escaping is in a way easy. The young revolutionary who is sent to Siberia has understood the real objective of the human species: to survive with the whole society that is around us, all together, as one group that has to be varied and all-inclusive. That's the real battle, and not to push further on or farther on to the USA or to Israel. That is what surviving means today for the human species: to develop one's individuality within the developing group where we live and within the global human community. There is no escape there and the Fiddler on the Roof will follow everywhere to remind us of that human duty.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines, CEGID
Summary of Fiddler on the Roof (Collector's Edition)
Tevye, trys to preserve his Jewish heritage in the humble village of Anatekva.Genre: Musicals
Rating: G
Release Date: 23-JAN-2007
Media Type: DVD
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