Broken Barriers (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.

Released

1919-01-01

Genres

Drama

Runtime

76 min

Status

Released

Directed / written by

Charles E. Davenport

TMDB rating

6.0/10 from 2 votes