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An emotionally desperate investment banker finds hope through a woman he meets.


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.

Géza Röhrig
Shmuel

Matthew Broderick
Albert
Sammy Voit
Naftali

Leo Heller
Noam

Isabelle Phillips
Shprintzel
Sarah Jes Austell
Lab Receptionist

Natalie Carter
Security Guard

Bern Cohen
Reb Goshen
Linda Frieser
Wake Goer

Ben Hammer
Rebbe
To Dust is a drama, comedy film released in 2019 exploring themes of dark comedy, grief, death, hasidic judaism. Directed by Shawn Snyder, it stars Géza Röhrig, Matthew Broderick, Sammy Voit. 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.
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