![]() Compare Tevya, an American production made around the same time (1939) in Yiddish and depicting shtetl life in Eastern Europe. Starring Leon Liebgold, Lili Liliana, Abraham Morewski. ![]() (The names of the characters above are transliterated from Yiddish they may appear in other forms in different sources.) (It's been described as " Romeo and Juliet meets The Exorcist.") The rest of the community wants to get him out. At the wedding, Leye becomes possessed by Khonnen's spirit. Khonnen responds by studying the forbidden Kabbala and then drops dead in mystical ecstasy. ![]() But Leah's father is making her marry a rich man's son. The movie plot, in a nutshell: In a shtetl (pre-Holocaust Eastern European small town with a large Jewish population), Khonnen, a poor student, and Leah, a rich merchant's daughter, fall in love (their parents pledged that they would marry). The Dybbuk is a 1937 film from Poland, directed by Michal Waszynski. Leah, revealing that she has been possessed by Khonnen's dybbuk ![]()
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