The fall of 2021 marked the 50th anniversary of Fiddler on the Roof, the film Pauline Kael (The New Yorker) called "the most powerful movie musical ever made." Narrated by Jeff Goldblum, FIDDLER'S JOURNEY TO THE BIG SCREEN 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, production designer Robert F. Boyle, film critic Kenneth Turan, lyricist Sheldon Harnick, and actresses Rosalind Harris, Michele Marsh, and Neva Small (Tevye’s daughters). The film explores how the experience of making Fiddler deepened Jewison as an artist and revived his soul.

《屋頂上的提琴手》自1971年上映以來已逾半世紀，這部改編自百老匯經典音樂劇的電影，當年不但高踞全球票房冠軍，累計觀影人次更突破十億大關。為何一部以猶太村莊為背景的傳統婚嫁故事，竟能跨越文化藩籬，進駐影迷心間？本片由奧斯卡金像獎提名導演掌鏡，以非猶太裔導演為經，主創團隊的靈魂人物為緯，從主演、攝影、配樂、美術等各個方面交相回憶，為觀眾揭開這部《紐約客》盛讚「影史最傑出音樂劇電影」，如何巧妙雜揉悲喜，以笑容盛接淚珠。