DVD Release: Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness

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DVD Release Date: March 12, 2013
Price: DVD $29.95
Studio: Docurama/New Video/Cinedigm

Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness movie sceneSholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness is a 2011 documentary film on the legendary Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem, who remains best known for creating the character of Tevye the Dairyman, who later became the leading player of the hit 1964 Broadway musical Fiddler on the Roof.

The movie tells the tale of Eastern European Jew Aleichem, a 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, Aleichem captured that world with insightful humor. As scholars look at it now, 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.

Directed by Joseph Dorman, the unrated Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness had a limited release to theaters in July, 2011, where it received positive praise from the critics.

Bonus features include a pair of making-the featurettes.

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Founder and editor Laurence Lerman saw Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest when he was 13 years old and that’s all it took. He has been writing about film and video for more than a quarter of a century for magazines, anthologies, websites and most recently, Video Business magazine, where he served as the Reviews Editor for 15 years.