The Parting

Duration: 16

Genre: Educational

Year Published: 1973

Creator: Wombat

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Reveals the emotional, spiritual, and cultural reactions toward death of people in a small village in the Montenegro region of Yugoslavia as family and friends prepare for the burial of an old man. , Portrays a man's death and burial in a rural Yugoslavian village as the community gathers to wash and anoint his body, burn his old clothes, dress him in finery, celebrate the resurrection of the soul and then sing, pray and weep at the graveside.

Complete Record: Reveals the emotional, spiritual, and cultural reactions toward death of people in a small village in the Montenegro region of Yugoslavia as family and friends prepare for the burial of an old man. , Reveals in non-narrated format the customs and rituals surrounding death in a stony, remote Yugoslavian village. Shows townspeople gathering, preparing the body, sitting in a shadowy death watch, smoking and drinking in wake-like communion, burying, wailing in grief, and finally returning to a silent village., , Portrays a man's death and burial in a rural Yugoslavian village as the community gathers to wash and anoint his body, burn his old clothes, dress him in finery, celebrate the resurrection of the soul and then sing, pray and weep at the graveside. NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.

Metadata Source:UNT Digital Library