To Dust
To Dust
Release: 2019-02-08
·Runtime: 105m
·★ 5.7
Drama
Comedy
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.
Production Countries
United States of America
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
Cast
Géza Röhrig
as Shmuel
Matthew Broderick
as Albert
Leo Heller
as Noam
Isabelle Phillips
as Shprintzel
Natalie Carter
as Security Guard
Bern Cohen
as Reb Goshen
Ben Hammer
as Rebbe
Marceline Hugot
as Carol
Andrew Keenan-Bolger
as Doctor
Stephanie Kurtzuba
as Receptionist
Jill Marie Lawrence
as Judy
Larry Owens
as Stanley
Annie Pisapia
as Patient
Jaclyn S. Powell
as Hasidic Jewess sitting shiva with Faigy
Janet Sarno
as Faigy
Ziv Zaifman
as Moishe