Several of the actors in the film died in Poland in the Holocaust including: Ajzyk Samberg (Meszulach the Messenger), Samuel Landau (Zalman the Matchmaker), Abraham Kurc (Michael), and Zisze Kac (Mendel).
Some of the songs in the film were performed by Gershon Sirota, the well-known cantor of the Great Synagogue in Warsaw, who was killed during the Warsaw Ghetto uprising.
Dybbuk is based on a 1914 play by S. Ansky based on the legend of the Dybbuk, a ghost who cannot find peace in the afterlife and enters a living person's body.
Filmed on location in Kazimierz Dolny, Poland, and in Feniks Film Studio in Warsaw.
Adaptations of the 1914 Ansky play the film was based upon, were directed by well-known Polish directors Andrzej Wajda and Krzysztof Warlikowski. Agnieszka Holland also directed a television drama based on the text in 1999.