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 |
Marceline Hugot | Carol |
Andrew Keenan-Bolger | Doctor |