Broken Barriers
movie
Released January 01, 1919
Genres:
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.
Cast
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Alice Hastings
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Khavah
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Alexander Tenenholtz
as
Fedka
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Giacomo Masuroff
as
Tobias, Khavah's Father
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Billie Wilson
as
Khavah's Mother
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Sonia Radin
as
Parasha, Fedka's Mother
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Phil Sanford
as
Ivan, Fedka's Father
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Anna Kay
as
Khavah's Sister
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Raymond Friedgen
as
Fedka's Chum
Crew
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Charles E. Davenport
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Director
Sholom Aleichem
as
Writer
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Nat Dorfman
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Writers' Production
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Irving B. Ruby
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Cinematography
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Jack Young
as
Cinematography
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Nat Dorfman
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Editor
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Raymond Friedgen
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Second Unit Director of Photography
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Leopold Kehlmann
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Producer
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Meyer Kehlmann
as
Producer