Broken Barriers

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Broken Barriers (1919)

Directed by Charles E. Davenport

Drama · 1h 16m

This 1919 silent is the first American film based on the same Sholem Aleichem stories as Fiddler on the Roof, but produced 50 years before the blockbuster musical. Unlike most adaptations of Aleichem’s work, Broken Barriers (Khavah) focuses not on Tevye the milkman, but on his daughter Khavah, who falls in love with the gentile boy Fedka and must navigate the reverberations from this with both her community and her family.

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Cast

A
Alice Hastings Khavah
A
Alexander Tenenholtz Fedka
G
Giacomo Masuroff Tobias, Khavah's Father
B
Billie Wilson Khavah's Mother
S
Sonia Radin Parasha, Fedka's Mother
P
Phil Sanford Ivan, Fedka's Father
A
Anna Kay Khavah's Sister
R
Raymond Friedgen Fedka's Chum

Crew

Director
Charles E. Davenport
Writer
Sholom Aleichem
Editor
Nat Dorfman
Producer
Leopold Kehlmann, Meyer Kehlmann

Details

Original title
Khava
Release date
1919-01-01
Runtime
1h 16m
Genres
Drama
Original language
YI
Spoken languages
No Language
Countries
United States of America
Production
Zion Films, Inc.