To Dust

To Dust

105 mins | Drama | Feb. 8, 2019

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.

To Dust

105 mins | Drama | Feb. 8, 2019

To Dust
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.
IMDb rating 6.0
Producers Good Deed Entertainment, Storyland Pictures, Wing and a Prayer Pictures, King Bee Productions, Salem Street Entertainment, UnLTD Productions, The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Production Grant
Original title To Dust
Directors Shawn Snyder
Writers Jason Begue, Shawn Snyder

Cast

Géza Röhrig

as Shmuel

Matthew Broderick

as Albert

Sammy Voit

as Naftali

Leo Heller

as Noam

Isabelle Phillips

as Shprintzel

Sarah Jes Austell

as Lab Receptionist

Natalie Carter

as Security Guard

Bern Cohen

as Reb Goshen

Linda Frieser

as Wake Goer

Ben Hammer

as Rebbe

Marceline Hugot

as Carol

Stephanie Kurtzuba

as Receptionist

Larry Owens

as Stanley

Annie Pisapia

as Patient

Jaclyn S. Powell

as Hasidic Jewess sitting shiva with Faigy

Aaron Raksin

as Sender

Zalman Raksin

as Brother-In-Law

Reuven Russell

as Hasidic Jew

Janet Sarno

as Faigy

Joseph Siprut

as Undertaker

Ziv Zaifman

as Moishe