Rotten
The qualities that have kept the Broadway Fiddler running these seven years are in scant supply onscreen.
Jay Cocks, TIME Magazine
Overview
In a pre-revolutionary Russia, a poor Jewish milkman struggles with the challenges of a changing world as his daughters fall in love and antisemitism grows.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
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83%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Earthbound but not bad.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Fresh
Sentimental in a theatrical way, romantic in the oldfashioned way, nostalgic of immigration days, affirmative of human decency, loyalty, bravery and folk humor.
Variety Staff, Variety
Rotten
Very hard to take with the film sitting up and practically slobbering in its eagerness to prove how loveable it is.
Tom Milne, Time Out
Rotten
They want to show us everything, to give us our money's worth. In so doing, they've not just opened up the play, they've let most of the life out of it.
Vincent Canby, New York Times
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