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Broken Barriers

6.0(2)19191h 16m1

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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  • silent film
  • ostracism
  • religious persecution

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  • United StatesUS

    • TheatricalNR1 Jan 1919
    • PremiereNRPremiere of Restoration19 Jan 2020

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Broken Barriers was released on 1 January 1919.

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