Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness
Before there was Fiddler, there was Tevye... and the man who created him.
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DVD-R Details
- Run Time: 1 hours, 34 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: August 24, 2016
- Originally Released: 2011
- Label: Cinedigm
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Featured: | Peter Riegert | |
Directed by | Joseph Dorman | |
Narrated by | Alan Rosenberg | |
Composition by | John Zorn | |
Produced by | Joseph Dorman | |
Voice: | Rachel Dratch |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/5 --
A rich, winning documentary...
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Arizona Republic
Rating: B- --
In the end, you're certainly inspired to read Aleichem, but not necessarily to watch Dorman's film again.
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Oregonian
Rating: 7/10 --
.... a thoughtful, if also conventional, overview of Aleichem's life and work, mixing straight history and biography with quotations from his writings...
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Playback:stl
Rating: B --
One needn't be a student of the history or literature of the period to appreciate this excellent portrait of a fascinating and important figure.
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One Guy's Opinion
Rating: B --
It's a history lesson that also shows art informing the events, even changing them.
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Tampa Bay Times
Rating: 3/4 --
Not often does a film double as a literary critic, but this is the Northrop Frye of docs. Essentially, it revises and sharpens the blunted reputation of a great writer.
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Globe and Mail
Rating: 4/5 --
... a swift, fascinating 93 minutes ...
Sacramento News & Review
Description by OLDIES.com:
A portrait of the great writer whose stories became the basis of the Broadway musical Fiddler on the Roof. This documentary 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.
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- Sales Rank: 70,418
- UPC: 889290934550
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