Especially (my favorite) the bar room dance scene.
Listen to this movie on a powerful sound system and it will sweep you into each musical number. Perfect casting, cinematography, pacing, art direction, wardrobe and best of all, an exquisite soundtrack by the great, and very young, John Williams. I recommend you set aside an undisturbed block of time, (use the can first, it's three hours long) when you are feeling relaxed, eat some good homemade soup and watch this masterpiece. This film will most likely not be enjoyable for those looking for spoon fed, mindless entertainment or titillation, but for anyone who appreciates the beautiful things in life, it is high art.
Considering the lack of success Topol has had with the rest of his career it would literally seem he was born to play this part. It has an indomitable optimism and remarkable pathos that causes the viewer to empathize with the characters, namely Reb Tevye, played by Topol in arguably one of the finest dramatic performances ever. Therefore I say every human should love this film. Any one who has felt pain and persecution will relate to it. Though the subject matter is Jewish, to say it is a Jewish film would grossly limit it's significance. That is definitely NOT what this film is about. On the contrary, as a straight WASP, the last thing I want to watch is a broadway musical or a bunch of Jews 'kavetching' about how bad they have it. Let me say up front, I am not predisposed to enjoy a movie like this. Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Meanwhile the Czar troops evict the Jewish community from Anatevka. When his third daughter Chava decides to get married with the Christian Fyedka, Tevye does not accept and considers that Chava has died. When Perchik is arrested by the Czar troops and sent to Siberia, Hodel decides to leave her family and homeland and travel to Siberia to be with her beloved Perchik. Then his second daughter Hodel (Michele Marsh) and the revolutionary student Perchik decide to marry each other and Tevye is forced to accept. However Tzeitel is in love with the poor tailor Motel Kamzoil and they ask permission to Tevye to get married that he accepts to please his daughter. When the local matchmaker Yente arranges the match between his older daughter Tzeitel and the old widow butcher Lazar Wolf, Tevye agrees with the wedding. The milkman Reb Tevye is a poor man that has been married for twenty-five years with Golde and they have five daughters. Among the traditions of the Jewish community, the matchmaker arranges the match and the father approves it. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Jews and Orthodox Christians live in the little village of Anatevka in the pre-revolutionary Russia of the Czars.