Orozco the Embalmer (2001)
1h 32m
Running Time
October 6, 2001Release Date
Orozco the Embalmer (2001)
1h 32m
Running Time
October 6, 2001Release Date
Network & Production Companies
Plot.
In 1996, Tsurisaki Kiyotaka, one of Japan’s most infamous death photographers, ventured into the center of Hell itself - the Rue Morgue neighborhood of Bogota, Colombia. With death and murder rampant, the corpses eventually find their way to embalmer Froilan Orozco, who has been tending the dead for over 50 years. We watch as bodies are brought in to his shop and he prepares them for their funerals.
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Cast & Crew.
Biruta
Self
Froilan Orozco
Self
Wipa
Self
Kiyotaka Tsurisaki
Director
Birutica
Self
Álvaro Fernández Bonilla
Cinematographer
Kaoru Adachi
Editor
Media.
Details.
Release DateOctober 6, 2001
Original NameOrozco el embalsamador
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 32m
Genres
Wiki.
Orozco the Embalmer (Spanish: Orozco el embalsamador) is a 2001 Spanish-language Japanese-Colombian mondo film directed by Kiyotaka Tsurisaki. It follows a Colombian embalmer named Froilan Orozco Duarte, who is shown living in El Cartucho, an impoverished and crime-ridden area of Bogotá, Colombia, where the homicide rate is high and corpses can be seen on the streets.The film comprises footage taken over a period of several years, documenting in a graphic cinéma vérité manner Orozco's embalming of corpses. Orozco died during the production of the film.