Movie: Broken Barriers

Top 8 Billed Cast

Alice Hastings
Alice Hastings

Khavah

Alexander Tenenholtz
Alexander Tenenholtz

Fedka

Giacomo Masuroff
Giacomo Masuroff

Tobias, Khavah's Father

Billie Wilson
Billie Wilson

Khavah's Mother

Sonia Radin
Sonia Radin

Parasha, Fedka's Mother

Phil Sanford
Phil Sanford

Ivan, Fedka's Father

Anna Kay
Anna Kay

Khavah's Sister

Raymond Friedgen
Raymond Friedgen

Fedka's Chum

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    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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    1919-01-01

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