Bibliograph

Sholem Aleichem, laughing in the darkness, a film by Joseph Dorman

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Label

Sholem Aleichem, laughing in the darkness, a film by Joseph Dorman

Language

eng

Characteristic

videorecording

Main title

Sholem Aleichem

Oclc number

806474379

Responsibility statement

a film by Joseph Dorman

Runtime

Sub title

laughing in the darkness

Summary

A portrait of writer Sholem Aleichem, whose stories about Tevye the milkman became the basis of the Broadway musical Fiddler on the Roof. Aleichem (1859-1916) was a rebellious wordsmith who created a new genre of literature and used his remarkable humor to encapsulate the realities of the Eastern European Jewish world in the late nineteenth century. Using a rich collection of archival footage, the film recreates a time in czarist Russia when Jews were second-class citizens and frequent scapegoats in times of social and political unrest

Technique

live action

resource.variantTitle

Laughing in the darkness

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