Theodore Bikel: In the Shoes of Sholom Aleichem
A moving and thoroughly entertaining portrait...had audience members laughing and clapping after every precious Bikel performance.
-- Jay Rosenblatt, Program Director, San Francisco JFF
Theodore Bikel: In the Shoes of Sholom Aleichem
Part of our Culture Vulture series. For more screenings and information, visit: www.laemmle.com/culturevulture.
Portraits of two beloved icons -- Sholom Aleichem and Theodore Bikel -- are woven together in this enchanting new documentary. The two men have much in common: wit, wisdom and talent, all shot through with deep humanity and Yiddishkeit.
Theodore Bikel, the unstoppable performer whose career spanned more than 150 screen roles (including an Oscar-nominated turn in "The Defiant Ones") and countless stage and musical productions, was also the foremost interpreter of Sholom Aleichem's work. Bikel played Tevye the Milkman on stage more than 2,000 times, and animated Aleichem's work through his creation of two celebrated musical plays about the great Russian author.
The new film Theodore Bikel: In the Shoes of Sholom Aleichem combines Bikel's charismatic storytelling and masterful performances with a broader exploration of Aleichem's remarkable life and work.
A pioneer of modern Jewish literature who championed and luxuriated in the Yiddish language, Sholom Aleichem created dozens of indelible characters. His Tevye the Milkman, Motl the Cantor's Son, and Menachem Mendl -- "shtetl Jews" for whom humor and pathos were two sides of the same Yiddish coin -- remain invaluable windows into pre-war Eastern European Jewish life, real and imagined.
Theodore Bikel, the unstoppable performer whose career spanned more than 150 screen roles (including an Oscar-nominated turn in "The Defiant Ones") and countless stage and musical productions, was also the foremost interpreter of Sholom Aleichem's work. Bikel played Tevye the Milkman on stage more than 2,000 times, and animated Aleichem's work through his creation of two celebrated musical plays about the great Russian author.
The new film Theodore Bikel: In the Shoes of Sholom Aleichem combines Bikel's charismatic storytelling and masterful performances with a broader exploration of Aleichem's remarkable life and work.
A pioneer of modern Jewish literature who championed and luxuriated in the Yiddish language, Sholom Aleichem created dozens of indelible characters. His Tevye the Milkman, Motl the Cantor's Son, and Menachem Mendl -- "shtetl Jews" for whom humor and pathos were two sides of the same Yiddish coin -- remain invaluable windows into pre-war Eastern European Jewish life, real and imagined.
Genre
Documentary,
Culture Vulture
Web Site
Runtime
75
Language
English
Cast
Alan Alda (narrator)
Played at
Playhouse 7 10.19.15 - 10.20.15
Claremont 5 10.19.15 - 10.20.15
Town Center 5 10.19.15 - 10.20.15
Fine Arts Theatre 10.19.15 - 10.20.15
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