Did you ever wonder why Topol was chosen to play the part of Tevye (and not Zero Mostel) in the movie version of Fiddler? Or who really played the Fiddler’s violin? Do you know where Fiddler was shot and about the synagogue that was built for the movie?

If you’d like to know the answers or are just in the mood for an entertaining movie, join us in partnership with Jean Cocteau Cinema for a SNEEK PEAK of FIDDLER’S JOURNEY TO THE BIG SCREEN 7 PM, Wednesday, May 18.

FIDDLER’S JOURNEY  captures the humor and drama of director Norman Jewison’s 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 director’s chair and in Jewison’s heart and mind, drawing on behind-the-scenes footage and never-before-seen stills as well as original interviews with Jewison, Topol (Tevye), composer John Williams, and many more

The film explores how the experience of making “Fiddler” deepens Jewison as an artist and revives his soul while recalling the movie that Pauline Kael (The New Yorker) called “the most powerful movie musical ever made.”

SPECIAL GUEST INTERVIEW follows the screening.

Award-winning author and film critic Professor Alisa Solomon of Columbia University’s School of Journalism joins us in a Zoom interview for a fascinating look at the making of the original production of Fiddler on Broadway. Prof. Solomon is the author of the critically acclaimed Wonder of Wonders – A Cultural History of Fiddler.