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 Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The Dybbuk is a 1937 film from Poland, directed by Michal Waszynski.It is based on a classic play by S. Ansky. The entire film is in Yiddish. 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). But Leah's father is making her marry a rich man's son. Khonnen responds by studying the forbidden Kabbala and then drops dead in mystical ecstasy. At the wedding, Leye becomes possessed by Khonnen's spirit. The rest of the community wants to get him out. (It's been described as "Romeo and Juliet meets The Exorcist.")(The names of the characters above are transliterated from Yiddish; they may appear in other forms in different sources.)Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Starring Leon Liebgold, Lili Liliana, Abraham Morewski. Compare Tevya, an American production made around the same time (1939) in Yiddish and depicting shtetl life in Eastern Europe.
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 Arranged Marriage: Sender arranges for his daughter Leah to marry a stranger from a nearby village in return for a sizeable dowry. Immediately after this he finds out just who Khonnen's father was, and remembers his old promise, but it's too late.
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 Age Cut: There's a shot of Sender counting money at the table, while his sister Freyde stands off to the side holding his wailing infant daughter Leah. Cut to Sender, with a longer beard and a bigger pile of coins, talking about how "after ten years" he's done well for himself, while 10-year-old Leah stands off to the side and asks if she can help. Cut to Sender, with a very long beard and a still larger pile of coins, talking about how "after 18 years" he's done well, while a grown Leah stands off to the side and says she has something to tell him.
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