Broken Barriers (1919)
- Genre: Drama
- Release Date: 1919-01-01
- User Rating: 5/10 from 1 ratings
- Runtime: 1h 16min
- Language: No Language
- Production Company: Zion Films
- Production Country: United States of America
- Director: Charles E. Davenport
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.
Unfortunately the movie Broken Barriers is not yet available on HBO Max.
| Crew | Irving B. Ruby | Cinematography |
| Writing | Nat Dorfman | Writers' Production |
| Writing | Sholom Aleichem | Writer |
| Crew | Jack Young | Cinematography |
| Production | Meyer Kehlmann | Producer |
| Editing | Nat Dorfman | Editor |
| Production | Leopold Kehlmann | Producer |
| Camera | Raymond Friedgen | Second Unit Director of Photography |
| Directing | Charles E. Davenport | Director |
