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Movie

Broken Barriers

★ 6/10 · 2 votes 1919 1h 16m Released

Drama

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.

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

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