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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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
Marceline Hugot as Carol
Andrew Keenan-Bolger as Doctor
Stephanie Kurtzuba as Receptionist
Jill Marie Lawrence as Judy
Larry Owens as Stanley
Annie Pisapia as Patient
Jaclyn S. Powell as Hasidic Jewess sitting shiva with Faigy
Aaron Raksin as Sender
Zalman Raksin as Brother-In-Law
Reuven Russell as Hasidic Jew
Janet Sarno as Faigy
Joseph Siprut as Undertaker
Leanne Michelle Watson as Rivkah
Ziv Zaifman as Moishe
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