The Dybbuk (1960)

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 Senders Dybbuk sometimes defined as a malicious spirit or demon who possesses the living from Leahs body