Broken Barriers
6.0/1019191h 16m
Released
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.
Director: Charles E. Davenport
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
