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.
Sidney Lumet
Director

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
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