Broken Barriers (film)
| Broken Barriers - A Love Drama of the Ukraine | |
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| Directed by | Charles E. Davenport |
| Produced by | Jules Burnstein |
| Written by | Maurice Schwartz |
| Starring | Maurice Schwartz |
| Distributed by | Zion Films Inc., Leopold Khelmann (father of Hannah) |
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| Country | United States |
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Yiddish Russian |
Broken Barriers" aka "Khava חוה n is a 1919 American Yiddish film, based on author Sholem Aleichem's stock character טבֿיה דער מילכיקער Tevye der milkhiker.
Cast
- Maurice Schwartz - Tevya
- Alice Hastings - Khava (Chava)
- Alexander Tenenholtz - Fyedka
- Giacomo Masuroff - Tobias
- Billie Wilson - Khava's Mother (?Golde)
- Sonia Radin - Parasha
- Ivan, Fedka's Father
- Hanna (Gianna 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. Schwartz also directed the film. The movie was made the same year ( 1919) Schwartz directed stage production of Tevye.[1][2]
The two 1919 projects were used to create the 1939 version of "Tevya"
Post-production
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.
See also
References
External links
- Broken Barriers on 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, New York Times, 30 July 1939.