The Dybbuk (1960)
The Dybbuk
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.
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Theodore Bikel
as Sender
as Sender
Sylvia Davis
as Frade
as Frade
Ludwig Donath
as Rabbi Azrael
as Rabbi Azrael
Vincent Gardenia
as Nissen
as Nissen
Stefan Gierasch
as Yonya
as Yonya
Theo Goetz
as Meyer
as Meyer
Carol Lawrence
as Leah
as Leah
Eli Mintz
as Nachmon
as Nachmon
Jerry Rockwood
as Ilya
as Ilya
Gene Saks
as Mikoel
as Mikoel
Milton Selzer
as Messenger
as Messenger
Michael Shillo
as Rabbi Samson
as Rabbi Samson
Michael Tolan
as Channon
as Channon
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Sidney Lumet
Director
Director
Sholom Ansky
Theatre Play
Theatre Play
Joseph Liss
Screenplay
Screenplay
