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Women Undertakers: Back for the Dead

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2019-10-31 ภาพยนตร์
Women Undertakers: Back for the Dead
ผู้อำนวยการMarc Wolfensberger
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พิมพ์Documentary
พื้นที่Switzerland
ภาษาFrench
วันที่วางจำหน่าย2019-10-31
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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?

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