To Dust

Feb 8, 2019

1h 45m

★ 5.7

Overview

Shmuel, a Hasidic cantor in Upstate New York and distraught at the untimely death of his wife, struggles to find religious solace, while secretly obsessing over how her body will decay. As a clandestine partnership develops with Albert, a local community college biology professor, the two embark on a darkly comic and increasingly literal undertaking into the underworld.

Genres

Drama

Comedy

Production Companies

King Bee Productions

Salem Street Entertainment

UnLTD Productions

Storyland Pictures

Wing and a Prayer Pictures

Good Deed Entertainment

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Production Grant

To Dust Trailers

Cast

Shmuel

Géza Röhrig

Albert

Matthew Broderick

Naftali

Sammy Voit

Noam

Leo Heller

Shprintzel

Isabelle Phillips

Lab Receptionist

Sarah Jes Austell

Security Guard

Natalie Carter

Reb Goshen

Bern Cohen

Wake Goer

Linda Frieser

Rebbe

Ben Hammer

Carol

Marceline Hugot

Doctor

Andrew Keenan-Bolger

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