Broken Barriers
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.
Release date
01/01/1919
Votes
2
Popularity
2.4
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
Original Soundtrack
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The Stepmother
Underground
The Seaside Hotel
The Way of the Strong
Sealed Hearts
Eighty-Four
The Woman Gives
The Mills in Joy and Sorrow
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Birth of Shri Krishna
Love of a State Councillor
The Triplets of Belleville
Recess
Queen Margot
The Kid
Carmen, the Bandit's Daughter
Four Feathers
Bear
The Man With The White Mask
The Aerial