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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.Read moreLess
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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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.
Watch trailerCast & crew
Géza RöhrigShmuel
Matthew BroderickAlbert
Leo HellerNoam
Isabelle PhillipsShprintzel
Natalie CarterSecurity Guard
Bern CohenReb Goshen
Ben HammerRebbe
Marceline HugotCarol
Andrew Keenan-BolgerDoctorExplore the crew
- Editor
- Allyson C. Johnson
- Producer
- Scott Floyd Lochmus
- Writer
- Shawn Snyder
- Producer
- Josh Crook
- Producer
- Ron Perlman
- Producer
- Emily Mortimer
- Producer
- Alessandro Nivola
- Director
- Shawn Snyder
- Writer
- Jason Begue
- Director of Photography
- Xavi Giménez
- Original Music Composer
- Ariel Marx