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Еще до рождения Ханан и Леа были помолвлены – их очень религиозные отцы дали клятву перед Богом в том, что когда их дети вырастут, то поженятся. Но родители Ханана погибают в автокатастрофе, а он сам вырастает в интернате абсолютным атеистом. Спусте 20 лет Ханан приезжает в город, где родился, чтоб навестить могилу родителей, и случайно встречается с Леей. Между ними вспыхивает любовь с первого взгляда, о своей помолвке они, разумеется, не знают. Отец Леи против этой любви, так как Ханан не религиозный еврей...
Theatre Play
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.
Theatre Play
In a Polish shtetl, two young men who have grown up together betrothe their unborn children, ignoring the advice of a mysterious traveler not to pledge the lives of future generations. Soon after, one of them dies, and the wife of the other dies in childbirth. The children grow up in different towns, without ever knowing of the betrothal, but the power of the vow leads them to meet each other when they are marriageable. The young woman, Leah, is promised to another man, but Channon, the son of the father who died, is a practitioner of mysticism, and seeks to win his bride through sorcery.
