The Dybbuk

The Dybbuk — Plot

The Dybbuk is a made for TV film adaptation of a classic Jewish folktale. The story is about a young Jewish man, Sender (Theodore Bikel) who loves a young Jewish woman, Leah (Carol Lawrence) but her father arranges her marriage with another man. The grief of this causes Sender to die, but his spirit passes into the body of his beloved on her wedding day. Rabbi Azrael (Ludwig Donath), who serves as our narrator through the beginning of the film, is charged with the task of exercising Sender’s Dybbuk (sometimes defined as a malicious spirit or demon who possesses the living) from Leah’s body.

• Release date
• October 3, 1960
• Runtime
• 104 min
• Genres
• Horror, Drama, Fantasy, History, TV Movie
• Director
• Sidney Lumet

The Dybbuk — Cast

Theodore Bikel Sender

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Sylvia Davis Frade Ludwig Donath Rabbi Azrael Vincent Gardenia Nissen Stefan Gierasch Yonya

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Theo Goetz Meyer Carol Lawrence Leah Eli Mintz Nachmon