Video: 'Fiddler on the Roof' trailer

(Thursday, October 21, 1971) — Fiddler on the Roof, an American epic musical comedy-drama film about a poor Jewish milkman in pre-revolutionary Russia who must contend with marrying off his daughters while anti-semitic sentiment threatens his home, premiered today at a benefit screening in Amsterdam (it would open in New York on Nov. 3, 1971).

Video: 'Fiddler on the Roof (1971) - Movie' (10 clips)

An adaptation of the 1964 Broadway musical of the same name, the film was directed by Norman Jewison and starred Topol, Norma Crane, Leonard Frey, Molly Picon and Paul Mann.