Croque-mort au féminin

Women Undertakers: Back for the Dead
Die Bestatterinnen

Switzerland, October 2019
FILM, Documentary, 52 min.

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directed by: Marc Wolfensberger
Written by: Marc Wolfensberger
Status: In distribution
Website: https://thin-line.net/documentary-films/croque-mort-au-feminin

Politics Human Rights

For millennia, women have cared for the deceased: as death-bed vigils, as undertakers, as guardians of funeral rituals. They were present at births, and so, logically they were present at deaths too. Then everything changed. Since we no longer die at home, men took over. Undertaker became a “profession”, with its own business model. But today a growing number of women are making a comeback. For the good of the deceased?