Before there was Fiddler, there was Tevye... and the man who created him.
February 24, 2012
1h 33m
EN
Joseph Dorman
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.
Rachel Dratch
Shayne Sheyndl
Hillel Halkin
Himself
Jason Kravits
Menachem Mendi
Dan Miron
Himself
Joseph Dorman
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Peter Riegert
Tevye
Alan Rosenberg
Narrator
David Roskies
Himself
Ruth Wisse
Herself