The Dybbuk
Original title: The Dybbuk
Original language: enIMDB: tt0675399
TMDB: 621109
Release date: Monday, 3rd October 1960
Adult: No
Duration: 1h 44min
Popularity: 0.295
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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.
Popularity: 0.295
Rate:
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.
Directors
Sidney Lumet
(Director)
(Director)Writers
Joseph Liss
(Screenplay)
(Screenplay)Sholom Ansky (Theatre Play)
(Theatre Play)Cast
Theodore Bikel
(Sender)
(Sender)Sylvia Davis (Frade)
(Frade)Ludwig Donath
(Rabbi Azrael)
(Rabbi Azrael)Vincent Gardenia
(Nissen)
(Nissen)Stefan Gierasch
(Yonya)
(Yonya)Theo Goetz (Meyer)
(Meyer)Carol Lawrence
(Leah)
(Leah)Eli Mintz
(Nachmon)
(Nachmon)Jerry Rockwood (Ilya)
(Ilya)Gene Saks
(Mikoel)
(Mikoel)Milton Selzer
(Messenger)
(Messenger)Michael Shillo
(Rabbi Samson)
(Rabbi Samson)Michael Tolan
(Channon)
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