I watched the movie when I was a kid and never bothered to check who composed the awesome music. It floored me to know that the fantastic violin solo by Itzhak Perlman was composed by John Williams because by contractual obligations, almost every frigging credit had to be rolled at the beginning of the movie so they needed something to cover that six-minute display.
Although there are several posters for that movie, this one became the iconic one, the one with the violin solo.
L’Chaim !
Note though that the soloist for the movie was Isaac Stern. I didn’t know that until last week when I saw an excellent documentary about him (on DVD, from Netflix). Highly recommended.