Broken Barriers
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.
Broken Barriers
January 1, 1919
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Cast (8)
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
Crew (9)
Directing
Charles E. Davenport
Director
Writing
Nat Dorfman
Writers' Production
Sholom Aleichem
Writer
Production
Meyer Kehlmann
Producer
Leopold Kehlmann
Producer
Sound
No data availableArt
No data availableCamera
Raymond Friedgen
Second Unit Director of Photography
Costume & Make-Up
No data availableCrew
Irving B. Ruby
Cinematography
Jack Young
Cinematography
Editing
Nat Dorfman
Editor