Film

Sholem Aleichem: Laughing In The Darkness

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

6.2

1h 33m

2012

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

Synopsis

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.