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A Serious Man is a american film of genre Drama directed by Frères Coen released in USA on 2 october 2009 with Michael Stuhlbarg
A Serious Man (2009)
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Add to a movie listA Serious Man is a 2009 black comedy written, produced, edited and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. The film stars Michael Stuhlbarg as a Minnesota Jewish man whose life crumbles both professionally and personally, leading him to questions about his faith. The film attracted a positive critical response, including a Golden Globe nomination for Stuhlbarg, a place on both the American Film Institute's and National Board of Review's Top 10 Film Lists of 2009, and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Picture.
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In a prologue, a Jewish man in an unnamed Eastern European shtetl tells his wife that he was helped on his way home by Traitle Groshkover, whom he has invited in for soup. She says Groshkover is dead and must be a dybbuk. Groshkover (Fyvush Finkel) arrives and laughs off the accusation, but she plunges an icepick into his chest. Bleeding, he exits into the snowy night.Actors
Michael Stuhlbarg
(Larry Gopnik)
Richard Kind
(Uncle Arthur)
Simon Helberg
(Rabbi Scott)
Fred Melamed
(Sy Ableman)
Adam Arkin
(Divorce Lawyer)
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