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    Broken Barriers

    76'

    1919-01-01

    6

    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.

    WritingNat DorfmanDirectingCharles E. Davenport

    Cast

    1

    Khavah

    Alice Hastings

    1

    Fedka

    Alexander Tenenholtz

    1

    Tobias, Khavah's Father

    Giacomo Masuroff

    1

    Khavah's Mother

    Billie Wilson

    1

    Parasha, Fedka's Mother

    Sonia Radin

    1

    Ivan, Fedka's Father

    Phil Sanford

    1

    Khavah's Sister

    Anna Kay

    1

    Fedka's Chum

    Raymond Friedgen

    Details:

    • Budget: 0
    • Home page
    • Revenue: 0
    • List of countries:
      1. United States of America
    • List of languages:
      1. No Language
    • List of companies:
      1. Zion Films, Inc.
    • Vote Count: 2
    • Popularity: 0.7359
    • Status: Released
    • Original title:Khava

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