The Dybbuk (1960)
Overview
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.
Cast
Theodore Bikel
Sender
Ludwig Donath
Rabbi Azrael
Vincent Gardenia
Nissen
Stefan Gierasch
Yonya
Carol Lawrence
Leah
Eli Mintz
Nachmon
Gene Saks
Mikoel
Milton Selzer
Messenger
Michael Shillo
Rabbi Samson
Michael Tolan
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