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.
About Broken Barriers (1919)
Released in 1919, Broken Barriers is a drama film from Zion Films, Inc. (United States of America). It was directed by Charles E. Davenport and written by Sholom Aleichem. The cast is led by Alice Hastings, Alexander Tenenholtz, Giacomo Masuroff, Billie Wilson and Sonia Radin. With a runtime of 1h 16m, the film averages 6.0/10 across 2 TMDB ratings.
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