Pogrebnik

PëRMBLEDHJE

A Serbian named Bata works in his father-in-law's company "Drnda International", an undertaker's business. Mr. Drnda started the company when he returned home from working as a laborer in Germany and Austria. It's now an international business with 26 hearses, which bring Serbians who died abroad back home, or tourists whose vacations in Serbia ended badly. At this point, the owner has limited his own activities to thinking up ads and determining the long-term corporate strategy. Bata drives back and forth between Eastern and Western Europe transporting corpses trying hard to look calm and collected. But an ever-gray sky, hits of yesteryear on the radio and heated exchanges with customs officers take their toll on him. After all, undertakers have to blow off some steam, too. This isn't a morbid tale of death (we don't even get a glimpse of a dead body), but rather an intimate portrait of an undertaker.