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Of the Dead

1979 PG-13 1h 45m
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Of the Dead
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An exploration of death through diverse funeral rites and other cultural responses to mortality across several countries, including South Korea, Thailand, Mexico, Belgium, and the USA. The film observes practices ranging from elaborate public burials to the process of cremation, offering a look at how different societies confront death and the deceased, sometimes in graphic detail.

Director Jean-Pol Ferbus
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Thierry ZénoDominique GarnyJean-Pol Ferbus
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tmdb91356506 21 Sep 2025

This European documentary shuns the sleazy world of mondo docs like "Faces of Death" and tries to show how different parts of the world view death. The problem is that the directors slip in sleazy mondo footage, and the unshocking footage is especially dull. The film opens with an American preparing a body for embalming, before a very long segment in Thailand, where a family prepares to bury a ...

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