The Dybbuk (1960)
1h 44m
Running Time
October 3, 1960Release Date
Plot.
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.
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Cast & Crew.

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

Jerry Rockwood
Ilya

Gene Saks
Mikoel

Milton Selzer
Messenger

Michael Shillo
Rabbi Samson

Michael Tolan
Channon

Sidney Lumet
Director

Sholom Ansky
Theatre Play

Lewis Freedman
Producer

Joseph Liss
Screenplay
Details.
Release DateOctober 3, 1960
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 44m
Genres
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This Movie Is About.
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Wiki.
"The Dybbuk" is a 1960 television production of the Russian play The Dybbuk by Sholom Ansky, which was authored between 1913 and 1916 and is considered a Yiddish classic, with Cambridge University Press calling it "probably the most performed of any Yiddish play". It was directed by Sidney Lumet for The Play of the Week from an adaptation into English by Joseph Liss. The program, starring Carol Lawrence (who had just become a star after playing Maria in the original Broadway production of West Side Story), aired on October 3, 1960.