Death of an Undertaker

2025

Overview

Shot over eight years, this hybrid documentary is set in a real-life funeral home on Leichhardt’s famous Norton St, and features an admirably game cast of actual morticians— Sparrow, a part-time worker whose fragile psyche begins to fracture in the lead-up to his first exhumation. On the brink of homelessness, Sparrow is offered shelter in the flat next door to the parlour, as the boundary between life and death – and work and self – dissolves into oblivion. Bleakly funny and formally playful.

Genres

Documentary Drama

Production Countries

Australia

Spoken Languages

English en
Italian it

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Cast

Christian Byers

Sparrow

Michele Salamone

Mick

Rosa Peronace

Rose

Stefano Francalanci

Steve

Crew

Christian Byers

Director

Christian Byers

Producer

Christian Byers

Writer

Backdrops

Posters

External Links

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