What 1971 film musical centers on the milkman Tevye in Anatevka?

Fiddler on the Roof is the 1971 film musical centered on Tevye, a poor Jewish milkman in the village of Anatevka. Played by Chaim Topol, Tevye tries to preserve family, faith, and tradition while his daughters challenge arranged marriage customs and the community faces persecution and expulsion.

The film was directed by Norman Jewison and adapted from the stage musical by Joseph Stein, Jerry Bock, and Sheldon Harnick. That musical was itself inspired by Sholem Aleichem's stories about Tevye the Dairyman. Set in 1905 in the Pale of Settlement of Imperial Russia, the story combines intimate family decisions with the pressures of political violence and forced migration.

Songs including "Tradition," "If I Were a Rich Man," "Sunrise, Sunset," and "To Life" made the film a classic. The title metaphor describes the precarious balance required to live according to inherited customs while the world changes. Fiddler on the Roof won three Academy Awards and became the highest-grossing film of 1971.