Broken Barriers
📋 Details
🎬 Director
Charles E. Davenport
✍️ Writers
Sholom Aleichem
🎥 Producers
Meyer Kehlmann, Leopold Kehlmann
🌍 Countries
United States of America
🏢 Production
Zion Films
🗣️ Languages
No Language
🎭 Genres
Drama
📖 Overview
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
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Alice Hastings
Khavah
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Alexander Tenenholtz
Fedka
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Giacomo Masuroff
Tobias, Khavah's Father
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Billie Wilson
Khavah's Mother
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Sonia Radin
Parasha, Fedka's Mother
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Phil Sanford
Ivan, Fedka's Father
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Anna Kay
Khavah's Sister
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Raymond Friedgen
Fedka's Chum
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