Women Undertakers: Back for the Dead

A quiet, thoughtful documentary that treats death and the women who tend it with gentle, unsensational respect.

Directed by

Marc Wolfensberger

Genres

Documentary

Overview

For millennia, women have cared for the deceased: as death-bed vigils, as undertakers, as guardians of funeral rituals. Then everything changed. Since we no longer die at home, men took over. But today a growing number of women are making a comeback. For the good of the deceased?

How it feels

Earnest, melancholic and warm. Measured and needs your attention.

About

Death, gender, work, trauma

Content

Mild gore. No violence, sexual content or swearing.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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