Broken Barriers (1919)
1h 16m
Running Time
January 1, 1919Release Date
Plot.
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 & Crew.

Alice Hastings
Khavah

Alexander Tenenholtz
Fedka

Giacomo Masuroff
Tobias, Khavah's Father

Billie Wilson
Khavah's Mother

Sonia Radin
Parasha, Fedka's Mother

Phil Sanford
Ivan, Fedka's Father

Anna Kay
Khavah's Sister

Raymond Friedgen
Fedka's Chum / Second Unit Director of Photography

Charles E. Davenport
Director

Sholom Aleichem
Writer

Nat Dorfman
Writers' Production / Editor

Irving B. Ruby
Cinematography

Jack Young
Cinematography

Leopold Kehlmann
Producer

Meyer Kehlmann
Producer
Media.

Details.
Release DateJanuary 1, 1919
Original NameKhava
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 16m
Content RatingNR
Genres
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This Movie Is About.
silent film
ostracism
religious persecution
Wiki.
Broken Barriers, also known as Khava (Yiddish: חוה) is a 1919 American Yiddish silent film, based on author Sholem Aleichem's stock character Tevye the Dairyman.
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