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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Cast
18 people
Theodore Bikel
Sender
Known for
The African Queen
My Fair Lady
Sylvia Davis
Frade
Known for
Alice's Restaurant
Sidney Lumet
Also in
The Manchurian Candidate
One Third of a Nation
Sholom Ansky
Lewis Freedman
Ludwig Donath
Rabbi Azrael
Known for
Torn Curtain
Gilda
David Susskind
Joseph Liss
Vincent Gardenia
Nissen
Known for
Little Shop of Horrors
Moonstruck
Stefan Gierasch
Yonya
Known for
Carrie
High Plains Drifter
Theo Goetz
Meyer
Carol Lawrence
Leah
Known for
Stranger in Our House
Sidney Lumet Director · Joseph Liss Screenplay Sholom Ansky Author
United States release October 3, 1960 · Produced in United States
Production
Talent Associates
Production
United States
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Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · October 3, 1960
TV
Finland
August 12, 1964
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