The Dybbuk (1960)
Synopsis
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: 1960-10-03
Runtime: 104 minutes
Director: Sidney Lumet
Top Cast
- Theodore Bikel as Sender
- Sylvia Davis as Frade
- Ludwig Donath as Rabbi Azrael
- Vincent Gardenia as Nissen
- Stefan Gierasch as Yonya
- Theo Goetz as Meyer
- Carol Lawrence as Leah
- Eli Mintz as Nachmon
- Jerry Rockwood as Ilya
- Gene Saks as Mikoel
Soundtrack
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