City of the Living Dead

Philippines. The funeral procession is moving; funeral ceremony at the cemetery. The territory of the cemetery where the land for burial is leased. View of mausoleums, monuments at the burial sites of rich people. The interior of one of the mausoleums. Burials in wall niches. The cemetery attendant explains about the cemetery. Filipino families, for whom this cemetery is a permanent place of residence, go about their household chores. The interiors of the dwellings arranged in the cemetery. Children play on the paths of the cemetery, grave slabs. Interview with a woman whose family has been living in the cemetery for 38 years. The child learns to walk along the path in the cemetery. A group of Filipinos are playing cards, singing, sitting by the graves. Linen is dried on a rope among the graves. A fight between two roosters, one of which - the defeated one - falls dead.

Color

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1990