Film
Broken Barriers
United States- Age rating
- NR
- Director
- Charles E. Davenport
- Year
- 1919
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.
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Directed by
Charles E. Davenport
Written by
Sholom Aleichem
Produced by
Meyer Kehlmann, Leopold Kehlmann
