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Sholem Aleichem: Laughing In The Darkness (2012)

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.

Release: 2012-02-24
Runtime: 93 min
Rating: 6.2 / 10
Cast
Rachel Dratch
Rachel Dratch
Shayne Sheyndl
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Hillel Halkin
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Jason Kravits
Jason Kravits
Menachem Mendi
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Dan Miron
Himself
Peter Riegert
Peter Riegert
Tevye
Alan Rosenberg
Alan Rosenberg
Narrator
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David Roskies
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Ruth Wisse
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