Broken Barriers

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Alice Hastings

Khavah

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Alexander Tenenholtz

Fedka

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Giacomo Masuroff

Tobias, Khavah's Father

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Billie Wilson

Khavah's Mother

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Sonia Radin

Parasha, Fedka's Mother

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Phil Sanford

Ivan, Fedka's Father

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Anna Kay

Khavah's Sister

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Raymond Friedgen

Fedka's Chum

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Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Charles E. Davenport
Production	Producer	Meyer Kehlmann Leopold Kehlmann
Crew	Cinematography	Irving B. Ruby Jack Young
Editing	Editor	Nat Dorfman
Camera	Second Unit Director of Photography	Raymond Friedgen
Writing	Writer	Sholom Aleichem
	Writers' Production	Nat Dorfman
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