Sholem Aleichem: Laughing In The Darkness

Release Date: 2012-02-24

Overview: 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.

Rating: 6.2 / 10

Cast

Rachel Dratch

as Shayne Sheyndl

Hillel Halkin

as Himself

Jason Kravits

as Menachem Mendi

Dan Miron

as Himself

Peter Riegert

as Tevye