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Theodore Bikel: In the Shoes of Sholom Aleichem (2014)
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Theodore Bikel: In the Shoes of Sholom Aleichem (2014)

Documentary

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. ...See morePortraits 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 spans more than 150 screen roles (including an Oscar-nominated turn in The Defiant Ones) and countless stage and musical productions, is also the foremost interpreter of Sholom Aleichem's work. Now 90, Bikel has played Tevye the Milkman on stage more than 2,000 times, and he has 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. See less

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16 cast members

Name	Known for
Alan Alda Narrator Narrator See fewer	MAS*H (1972)
Aaron Alexander Klezmer musician Klezmer musician See fewer	Bare Feet with Mickela Mallozzi (2014)
Theodore Bikel Self Self See fewer	My Fair Lady (1964)
Talya Buckbinder Klezmer musician Klezmer musician See fewer	Theodore Bikel: In the Shoes of Sholom Aleichem (2014)
Jeremy Dauber Self Self See fewer	The Sterling Chase (1999)
Joseph Dorman Self Self See fewer	Arguing the World (1997)
Fyvush Finkel Self Self See fewer	Picket Fences (1992)
Sherwin Kaufman Self Self See fewer	The Mike Douglas Show (1961)
Merima Kljuco Klezmer musician Klezmer musician See fewer	Little Star Rising (2019)
David Krakauer Self Self See fewer	Taking Woodstock (2009)
Hankus Netsky Klezmer musician Klezmer musician See fewer	Rabbit Ears: The Fool and the Flying Ship (1991)
Allen Lewis Rickman Self Self See fewer	A Serious Man (2009)
Deborah Strauss Klezmer musician Klezmer musician See fewer	Bare Feet with Mickela Mallozzi (2014)
Ruth Westheimer Self Self See fewer	One Woman or Two (1985)
Michael Wex Self Self See fewer	Fugitive Pieces (2007)
Michael Winograd Klezmer musician Klezmer musician See fewer	Uninvited (1999)