Film

The Dybbuk

1960 · 1h 44m · Horror · Drama · Fantasy

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.

Theodore Bikel

Sender

Sylvia Davis

Frade

Ludwig Donath

Rabbi Azrael

Vincent Gardenia

Nissen

Stefan Gierasch

Yonya

Theo Goetz

Meyer

Carol Lawrence

Leah

Eli Mintz

Nachmon

Jerry Rockwood

Ilya

Gene Saks

Mikoel

Milton Selzer

Messenger

Michael Shillo

Rabbi Samson

Michael Tolan

Channon

• Sidney LumetDirector
• Joseph LissScreenplay

Release date

October 3, 1960

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 44m

Genres

Horror, Drama, Fantasy, History, TV Movie

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