Release Date

03 Oct, 1960

Runtime

01:44: (HH:MM)

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.

Original Title

The Dybbuk

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Actors

Theodore Bikel

Sylvia Davis

Ludwig Donath

Vincent Gardenia

Stefan Gierasch

Theo Goetz

Carol Lawrence

Eli Mintz

Jerry Rockwood

Gene Saks

Milton Selzer

Michael Shillo

Michael Tolan

Crew

Joseph Liss

Sidney Lumet

Sholom Ansky