6.2

Sholem Aleichem: Laughing In The Darkness

Name: Sholem Aleichem: Laughing In The Darkness
Director: Joseph Dorman
Genre: Documentary, History
Released: 2012-02-24T00:00:00.000000Z
Duration: 93 min
Rating: 6.2
Cast: Rachel Dratch, Hillel Halkin, Jason Kravits, Dan Miron, Peter Riegert

“Before there was Fiddler, there was Tevye... and the man who created him.”

20121h 33m

DocumentaryHistory

Overview

A riveting portrait of the great writer whose stories became the basis of the Broadway musical Fiddler on the Roof. Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness tells the tale of the rebellious genius who created an entirely new literature. Plumbing the depths of a Jewish world locked in crisis and on the cusp of profound change, he captured that world with brilliant humor. Sholem Aleichem was not just a witness to the creation of a new modern Jewish identity, but one of the very men who forged it.