The 1971 film Fiddler on the Roof was primarily filmed on location in what is now Croatia, with studio work done in England.

Main filming locations

  • The fictional village of Anatevka was recreated mainly in the Croatian villages of Lekenik and Mala Gorica , which stood in for a shtetl in Tsarist Russia.
  • Additional outdoor scenes were shot around Zagreb , the capital of Croatia, whose historic districts provided streets and backgrounds for several sequences.

Studio and other sites

  • Many interiors and controlled-set sequences were filmed at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire, England, one of the UK’s major film studios.
  • Some sources also note limited filming in London , England, for select scenes tied to the production, though the core “village” material remained in Croatia and at Pinewood.

Setting vs. real locations

  • Although the story is set in the Ukrainian village of Anatevka in the Pale of Settlement of the Russian Empire, no filming took place in Ukraine; the look and feel were instead created using Croatian villages and landscapes.
  • Director Norman Jewison reportedly scouted several countries before choosing Croatia, whose traditional architecture and countryside best matched the visual concept for Anatevka.

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