The Dybbuk
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.
Directed by Sidney Lumet · Written by Joseph Liss
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Theodore Bikel Sender - Sylvia Davis Frade
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Ludwig Donath Rabbi Azrael -
Vincent Gardenia Nissen -
Stefan Gierasch Yonya - Theo Goetz Meyer
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Carol Lawrence Leah -
Eli Mintz Nachmon - Jerry Rockwood Ilya
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Gene Saks Mikoel -
Milton Selzer Messenger -
Michael Shillo Rabbi Samson
Make it a double feature
3h 21m together
The Dybbuk
12 Angry Men
Both from Sidney Lumet.


