Sholem Aleichem: Laughing In The Darkness
2012
6.2 (5)
1 hr 33 min
Before there was Fiddler, there was Tevye... and the man who created him.
$500,000
$845,188
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.
Top Cast
Rachel Dratch as Shayne Sheyndl
Hillel Halkin as Himself
Jason Kravits as Menachem Mendi
Dan Miron as Himself
Peter Riegert as Tevye
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