The Dybbuk (film)

• Abraham Morewski Rabbi Ezeriel ben Hodos
• Ajzyk Samberg: Meszulach, messenger
• Lili Liliana: Lea, daughter transmitter
• Mojżesz Lipman: Transmitter Brynicer ben Henie
• Leon Liebgold: Chanan ben Nisan
• Dina Halpern: Aunt Frajde
• Max Bozyk: Nute, transmitter friend
• M. Messinger: Menasze, future groom
• Gerszon Lemberger: ben Nisan Rifke
• Samuel Bronecki: Nachman, Menaszes father
• Samuel Landau: Zalman swat
• Judith Berg: dancer
• Simche FOSTEL
• Zisze Kac: Mendel
• Abraham Kurc: Michael
• David Lederman: Meir

The Dybbuk (AKA The Dibuk ) is a Polish film drama in Yiddish director Michał Waszynski from the year 1937.

Action

The drama takes place in the Jewish shtetl in Poland embossed small town around 1850. Befriended two families arrange the marriage of their children, provided that it will be a girl and a boy. When a family's daughter Leah was born and the other family the boy gets Chanan, the appointment seems to be able to be fulfilled. But Leah's father came in the meantime too much money and want to know nothing more of this marriage. But Leah and Chanan fall in love. As Chanan dies, take his soul from Lea possession. In an attempt to expel him, dies Leah.

Background

The literary work of Solomon An- Ski is based on a Jewish folk beliefs about the Dybbuk; often a dead evil spirit that enters the body of a living person. The film was shot in Kazimierz Dolny, in Opole Lublin and Warsaw in studios. The premiere was in Warsaw on 25 September 1937.

The Warsaw Professor Majer Balaban was involved as a consultant for the filming of the production.

Criticism

" The sombre, dignified and melancholy Dibek is the atmospheric densest and ' most artistic ' Yiddish talkies. From the initial image of a candle-lit synagogue on the weird dances on the unfinished wedding celebration to the climax of the movie Exorcism of religion and ritual is imbued - and also of superstition and the supernatural. [ ... ] "