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Joseph Dorman

Sholem Aleichem: Laughing In The Darkness

  • Documentary
  • History

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

RELEASE

2012-02-24

BUGET

$0.5M

LENGTH

93 min

Description

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.