Broken Hearts

Broken Hearts

80 mins | Drama | Feb. 16, 1926

A Jewish writer in Czarist Russia is forced to flee when the government comes after him for his "objectionable" writings. He emigrates to the US, where he settles in New York City's Lower East Side.

Broken Hearts

80 mins | Drama | Feb. 16, 1926

Broken Hearts
A Jewish writer in Czarist Russia is forced to flee when the government comes after him for his "objectionable" writings. He emigrates to the US, where he settles in New York City's Lower East Side.
Producers Jaffe Art Films
Original title Broken Hearts
Directors Maurice Schwartz
Writers Frances Taylor Patterson, Zalmen Libin

Cast

Maurice Schwartz

as Benjamin Rezanov

Lila Lee

as Ruth Esterin

Wolf Goldfaden

as Cantor Esterin

Bina Abramowitz

as Mama Esterin

Isidore Cashier

as Victor Caplin

Anna Appel

as Shprintze

Charles Nathanson

as Mr. Kruger