Broken Barriers (1919)

Name: Broken Barriers
Genre: Drama
Released: 1919-01-01
Duration: 1 hr 16 min
Rating: 60
Cast: Alice Hastings, Alexander Tenenholtz, Giacomo Masuroff, Billie Wilson, Sonia Radin

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StarringAlice HastingsAlexander TenenholtzGiacomo Masuroff

DirectorCharles E. Davenport

WriterSholom Aleichem

NR 1 hr 16 minJan 1st, 1919Drama

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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