Completed - SPANISH - First film - 90 minutes
During the 2009 uprising in Iran, a Morgue-Man decides to resist the violence of forgetting.
Year of production : 2016 Director(s) : Alireza KHATAMI Writer(s) : Alireza KHATAMI Producer(s) : Dominique WELINSKI (House on Fire), Frederic BELLAICHE (House on Fire), Vincent WANG (House on Fire)
2009, Iran, During Green Movement. The Morgue-Man, in his early 70s, has an exceptional ability to recall every single detail of his past three decades, except anyone’s name. About to retire, he’s in charge of a nearly forgotten remote morgue by the border of a huge cemetery. His best friend is a Gravedigger with a mystic personality who does not dig anyone’s grave unless he knows how that person died. The routine life of the Morgue-Man is disrupted when militias raid the morgue to hide corpses of civilians shot dead during the demonstrations. When the militias leave, the Morgue-Man finds the body of an Unknown Young Girl left behind. Reminded of his personal tragedy, the Morgue- Man wants to provide her a proper burial before the militias return. To overcome the bureaucratic obstacles, he seeks the help of his friend, the Gravedigger, and an Old Woman who has been searching for her daughter, missing since the tragic summer of 1988.
Country(ies) : FRANCE, GERMANY, NETHERLANDS, CHILE Start of shooting : September 2014
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