The Dybbuk
03/10/1960
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.
Movie Information
Theodore Bikel
as Sender
Sylvia Davis
as Frade
Ludwig Donath
as Rabbi Azrael
Vincent Gardenia
as Nissen
Stefan Gierasch
as Yonya
Theo Goetz
as Meyer
Carol Lawrence
as Leah
Eli Mintz
as Nachmon
Jerry Rockwood
as Ilya
Gene Saks
as Mikoel
Milton Selzer
as Messenger
Michael Shillo
as Rabbi Samson
Michael Tolan
as Channon
