Broken Barriers (1919 film)
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Directed by | Charles E. Davenport |
Written by | Maurice Schwartz |
Produced by | Jules Burnstein |
Starring | Maurice Schwartz |
Distributed by | Zion Films Inc., Leopold Khelmann (father of Hannah) |
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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.
See also
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
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- 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.
- 1919 films
- Silent films
- 1919 drama films
- American black-and-white films
- American films
- Films about Jews and Judaism
- Films based on short fiction
- Yiddish-language films
- 1910s rediscovered films
- American silent feature films
- American drama films
- Russian-language films
- Rediscovered American films
- 1910s drama film stubs