Broken Barriers (1919 film)

Broken Barriers - A Love Drama of the Ukraine
Broken Barriers - A Love Drama of the Ukraine
Directed by
Written by	Maurice Schwartz
Produced by
Starring	Maurice Schwartz
Distributed by	Zion Films Inc., Leopold Khelmann (father of Hannah)
Release date	1919;
Country	United States
Languages	Yiddish; Russian

Broken Barriers aka Khava חוה n is a 1919 American Yiddish silent film, based on author Sholem Aleichem's stock character טבֿיה דער מילכיקער Tevye der milkhiker.

Cast[]

Alice Hastings – Khava (Chava)
Alexander Tenenholtz – Fedka (Fyedka )
Giacomo Masuroff – Tobias (Tevye)
Billie Wilson – Khava's Mother (Golde)
Sonia Radin – Parasha
Ivan, Fedka's Father
Hanna (Ganna Kehlmann) Kay – Khavah's Sister (Tzeitel)
Raymond (John Raymond) Friedgen – Fedka's chum (friend)

Production[]

The script was adapted by Maurice Schwartz from the Sholem Aleichem play based on his own book. The film was made the same year (1919) Schwartz directed his stage production of Tevye.^[1]^[2] The two 1919 projects were used to create the 1939 version of Tevya.

Release and restoration[]

Long thought to be a lost film, an original copy was donated to The National Center for Jewish Film at Brandeis University for restoration by a descendant of one of the actors.^[3] The same story was the basis of the 1964 stage musical Fiddler on the Roof and its 1971 film version, though the fate of Chava in the ending was changed for the change in attitudes by that time.

References[]

^ Bridge of Light: Yiddish Film Between Two Worlds by J Hobermann. New York, 1991, ISBN 9781584658702. pp. 53–54.
^ Laughter Through Tears: The Yiddish Cinema by Judith N Goldberg. 1983. ISBN 9780838630747. pp. 97–98.
^ "Broken Barriers (1919)". IMDb. Archived from the original on November 25, 2016. Retrieved July 1, 2018.

External links[]

Broken Barriers at IMDb
Marat Grinberg, Rolling in Dust: Maurice Schwartz's Tevye (1939) And Its Ambiguities.
Thomas Pryor, A Ukrainian Village Is Erected on a Long Island Farm for a Yiddish Film Drama, The New York Times, July 30, 1939.

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[1] Bridge of Light: Yiddish Film Between Two Worlds by J Hobermann. New York, 1991, ISBN 9781584658702. pp. 53–54.

[2] Laughter Through Tears: The Yiddish Cinema by Judith N Goldberg. 1983. ISBN 9780838630747. pp. 97–98.

[3] "Broken Barriers (1919)". IMDb. Archived from the original on November 25, 2016. Retrieved July 1, 2018.

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