Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness2011
Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness (2011)
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as Narrator
as Tevye
as Sheyne Sheyndl/Stepmother
as Menachem Mendl
as Motl, the Cantor's Son
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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.
Audiences interested in Jewish literature will find Laughing in the Darkness compelling for its deep analysis of Aleichem's works, featuring a selection of experts and the writer's granddaughter, Bel Kaufman.
[An] absorbing PBS-style documentary.
Throughout the film, Dorman uses ethnographic and silent-cinema footage, along with ubiquitous klezmer music, to paint a picture of the era.
A rich, winning documentary...
The film adroitly sets the writer's works, his triumphs and tribulations, against the backdrop of a tumultuous period for European Jewry.
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