Orozco the Embalmer

Orozco the Embalmer

2001•1h 32m•6.2/10

DocumentaryHorror

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🎬TMDb

6.2/10(34)

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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Production

V&R Planning, Orozco Productions

Language

ES

Status

Released

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Froilan Orozco

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Biruta

Self

Wipa

Self

Birutica

Self

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