
“Before there was Fiddler, there was Tevye... and the man who created him.”
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.
Release Date: 2/24/2012
Runtime: 93 minutes
Languages: English
Director: Joseph Dorman
Budget: $0.5M
Revenue: $0.8M
Countries: United States of America

Peter Riegert
Tevye