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
2.6
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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Deserted at the Altar
Metropolis
Three Hours
Sweeney Todd
October (Ten Days that Shook the World)
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Broadway Nights
Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl
City Lights
The Tender Hour
Pandora's Box
The Gold Rush
The Divine Voyage
The Kid
Love of a State Councillor
Birth of Shri Krishna
The Tragedy of Silence
Sealed Hearts
Without Benefit of Clergy
The Birth of a Nation