Name: Broken Hearts
Released: 1926
Cast: Maurice Schwartz, Lila Lee, Wolf Goldfaden, Bina Abramowitz, Isidor Cashier

Cast & Crew

Film Details

Release Date

Jan 1926

Premiere Information

New York State license: 16 Feb 1926

Production Company

Jaffe Art Films

Country

United States

Screenplay Information

Based on the play Di Gebrokhene Hertser oder Libe un Flikht by Zalmen Libin (New York, 1903).

Synopsis

A Russian writer is forced to flee his homeland when the government finds his writings objectionable. He goes to New York, where he hears from a friend that his wife, whom he was forced to leave behind in Russia, has died. The writer later meets and marries the daughter of the cantor of an East Side congregation. He is rejected by the girl's family, however, who had wanted her to marry the dumbbell son of a rich cloak-and-suitor. The writer then learns that his first wife is still alive, and he sadly returns to Russia, only to find that while he was on his way to Russia she did die in a government hospital. The writer returns to the United States and is happily reunited with his wife on Yom Kippur.