Sholem Aleichem: Laughing In The Darkness
“Before there was Fiddler, there was Tevye... and the man who created him.”
2012movie1h 33mReleased
DocumentaryHistory
Director: Joseph Dorman
Budget: $500,000 · Revenue: $845,188
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.
