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The Dybbuk (1960)
Directed by Sidney Lumet
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.
Length 104 minutes
Actors
Theodore Bikel | Vincent Gardenia | Ludwig Donath | Stefan Gierasch | Gene Saks | Sylvia Davis | Milton Selzer | Eli Mintz | Carol Lawrence | Michael Tolan | Michael Shillo | Theo Goetz | Jerry Rockwood