Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 181 min
- Age rating
- G
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- A long one. Start it early, and give it the whole evening.
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
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.
- dreams
- parent child relationship
- tradition
- musical
- based on play or musical
- pogrom
- milkman
- russian orthodox church
- judaism
- tavern
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Paul Mann — Lazar Wolf
- Rosalind Harris — Tzeitel
- Michele Marsh — Hodel
- Neva Small — Chava
- Paul Michael Glaser — Perchik
- Ray Lovelock — Fyedka
- Elaine Edwards — Shprintze
- Candy Bonstein — Bielke
- Shimen Ruskin — Mordcha
- Zvee Scooler — Rabbi
- Louis Zorich — Constable
- Directed
- Norman Jewison
- Written
- Joseph Stein
Production
- Rating
- 7.7 / 10 · 669 ratings
- Studio
- United Artists, Cartier Productions, The Mirisch Company
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
