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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.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- October 3, 1960
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Talent Associates
- Cast
- Gene Saks,Michael Shillo,Jerry Rockwood,Michael Tolan,Theodore Bikel,Ludwig Donath,Eli Mintz,Sylvia Davis,Milton Selzer,Stefan Gieraschand 3 more
- Director
- Sidney Lumet
- Writer
- Sholom Ansky,Joseph Liss
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
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