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DEPARTURES

Available online: 21/03/2025
Director Michael Fetter Nathansky
Germany 2020
The film tells the story of Giralda, an undertaker who accompanies deceased human beings into their afterlife.

Synopsis

Departures tells the story of Giralda, an undertaker who accompanies deceased human beings into their afterlife. Interpreted with the means of Spanish flamenco dance and music, and set at an old East German ship canal lift, the film creates an associative fusion between Northern and Southern Europe, movement and silence, farewell and eternity.

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Departures tells the story of Giralda, an undertaker who accompanies deceased human beings into their afterlife. Interpreted with the means of Spanish flamenco dance and music, and set at an old East German ship canal lift, the film creates an associative fusion between Northern and Southern Europe, movement and silence, farewell and eternity.

Full credits

Section
Online Specials
Director
Michael Fetter Nathansky
Production countries
Germany
Production year
2020
Duration
0 minutes
Producer
Virginia Martin

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