Film

Sholem Aleichem: Laughing In The Darkness

2012 · 1h 33m · Documentary · History

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

IMDb

7.2

Rotten Tomatoes

100%

Metacritic

77

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

Peter Riegert

Tevye

Alan Rosenberg

Narrator

David Roskies

Himself

Ruth Wisse

Herself

• Joseph DormanDirector · Writer
• Ed MarritzDirector of Photography
• Aaron KuhnEditor
• Kenneth LevisEditor
• Amanda ZinomanEditor

Release date

February 24, 2012

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 33m

Budget

$500,000

Revenue

$845,188

Genres

Documentary, History