Sholem Aleichem: Laughing In The Darkness

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

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.

  • Genre: Documentary, History
  • Release Date: 2012-02-24
  • Runtime: 93 min
  • Country: United States of America
  • Language: English
  • Status: Released
  • IMDb Rating: 6.2
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