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Release Date:
February 8, 2019
Original Title:
To Dust
Alternate Titles:
Porrá
Genres:
Comedy | Drama
Production Companies:
Good Deed Entertainment
King Bee Productions
Salem Street Entertainment
Storyland Pictures
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Production Grant
UnLTD Productions
Wing and a Prayer Pictures
Production Countries:
United States of America
Ratings / Certifications:
JP: R18+ RU: 18+ US: R
Runtime: 105
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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Animation:
Robert Morgan
Art Direction:
Cheyenne Ford
Costume Design:
Evren Catlin
Director:
Shawn Snyder
Director of Photography:
Xavi Giménez
Editor:
Allyson C. Johnson
Original Music Composer:
Ariel Marx
Producer:
Alessandro Nivola
Ron Perlman
Emily Mortimer
Josh Crook
Scott Floyd Lochmus
Production Design:
Alexandra Kaucher
Production Manager:
Brian Papworth
Writer:
Shawn Snyder
Jason Begue
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