The Dybbuk

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Theodore Bikel

Sender

Age : N/A | Popularity : 47%

Sylvia Davis

Frade

Age : N/A | Popularity : 6%

Ludwig Donath

Rabbi Azrael

Age : 67 | Popularity : 46%

Vincent Gardenia

Nissen

Age : 72 | Popularity : 63%

Stefan Gierasch

Yonya

Age : 88 | Popularity : 44%

Theo Goetz

Meyer

Age : N/A | Popularity : 0%

Carol Lawrence

Leah

Age : 92 | Popularity : 32%

Eli Mintz

Nachmon

Age : 83 | Popularity : 17%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Sidney Lumet
Writing	Theatre Play	Sholom Ansky
	Screenplay	Joseph Liss
Department	Role	Name

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