Overview
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.
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