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.
- genus: Drama, Comedy
- Studio: 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
- keyword: dark comedy, grief, death, hasidic judaism
- cast: Géza Röhrig, Matthew Broderick, Sammy Voit, Leo Heller, Isabelle Phillips, Sarah Jes Austell