To Dust

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.

Directed by Shawn Snyder

Top cast

Géza Röhrig

Shmuel

Matthew Broderick

Albert

S

Sammy Voit

Naftali

Leo Heller

Noam

Isabelle Phillips

Shprintzel

S

Sarah Jes Austell

Lab Receptionist

Natalie Carter

Security Guard

Bern Cohen

Reb Goshen

L

Linda Frieser

Wake Goer

Ben Hammer

Rebbe

Marceline Hugot

Carol

Andrew Keenan-Bolger

Doctor

Stephanie Kurtzuba

Receptionist

Jill Marie Lawrence

Judy

Larry Owens

Stanley

Annie Pisapia

Patient

Jaclyn S. Powell

Hasidic Jewess sitting shiva with Faigy

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Aaron Raksin

Sender

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Zalman Raksin

Brother-In-Law

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Reuven Russell

Hasidic Jew

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