Broken Barriers (1919)

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.

Release Date : Jan 01, 1919

Runtime : 1h 16m

Genre : Drama  

Companies : Zion Films

Countries : United States of America

Keywords : silent film, ostracism, religious persecution