Broken Barriers
Original title: Khava
IMDb5.62
19191h 16mNR
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.
Top-billed cast
- AAlice Hastings
- AAlexander Tenenholtz
- GGiacomo Masuroff
- BBillie Wilson
- SSonia Radin
- PPhil Sanford
- AAnna Kay
- RRaymond Friedgen
Crew
- Director
- Charles E. Davenport
- Writers
- Sholom Aleichem, Nat Dorfman
- Producers
- Leopold Kehlmann, Meyer Kehlmann
- Production
- Zion Films, Inc.
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Who directed Broken Barriers?
Broken Barriers was directed by Charles E. Davenport.
When was Broken Barriers released?
Broken Barriers was released in 1919.
