Broken Barriers
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- Drama
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.
Keywords
- silent film
- religious persecution
- ostracism
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- January 1, 1919
- Original language
- Yiddish
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Inc.,Zion Films,Zion Films, Inc.
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- Homepage
- Official site
- IMDb
- tt0187757