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(JTA) - Despite his name, Norman Jewison, the director of the 1971 film adaptation of

A new documentary recounts the making of the screen musical classic for its 50th anniversary.

“Fiddler’s Journey to the Big Screen,” tells the story of how the stage musical became a beloved screen classic, a unique backstage look at the musical success.

LAJFF Previews New ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ Documentary From Sholem Aleichem’s shtetl tales to Broadway to the movies, the iconic characters and stories in “Fiddler on the Roof” have captivated audiences—Jewish and not—all over the world. The subject of the 2019 making-of film “Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles,” it gets a new documentary treatment in “Fiddler’s Journey to the Big Screen: The Untold Story of Norman Jewison’s Fiddler on the R...