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.

Cast

Géza Röhrig

Shmuel

Matthew Broderick

Albert

N/A

Sammy Voit

Naftali

Leo Heller

Noam

Isabelle Phillips

Shprintzel

N/A

Sarah Jes Austell

Lab Receptionist

Natalie Carter

Security Guard

Bern Cohen

Reb Goshen

N/A

Linda Frieser

Wake Goer

Ben Hammer

Rebbe

Marceline Hugot

Carol

Andrew Keenan-Bolger

Doctor