Modern funeral rite (1984)

An ambulance pulls up to the house.

A mirror hung with a black cloth.

Two people enter the building of the funeral services combine.

Two women are talking to an employee of the plant.

A man dials a number on a telephone.

The dispatcher accepts the order.

People on the street.

The funeral agent enters the entrance.

The agent communicates with the client.

The client is reviewing the catalog.

The agent fills out the documents.

The agent in the office pays for the ordered services.

A woman and a man in a salon-shop of ritual accessories.

Panorama of wreaths hanging on the wall.

A car pulls up to the house.

A wreath is taken out of it.

People gathered near the entrance.

Wreaths are taken out of the house, the agent directs the ceremony.

The coffin lid is taken out of the house, and then the coffin with the body.

Participants of the mournful ceremony get on buses.

Funeral cortege on the street.

Buses arrive at the cemetery.

Registration of burial in the cemetery office.

The coffin is brought into the hall for the funeral ceremony.

The head of the funeral ceremony opens the funeral rally.

Photo of the deceased with a mourning ribbon.

Farewell.

Panorama of the faces.

Funeral procession to the burial place.

A man holds a cushion with an order.

People approach the coffin to say goodbye.

The coffin lid is closed.

The coffin is lowered into the grave.

Those present throw handfuls of earth on the coffin lid.

The grave is being buried.

The portrait of the deceased is placed on a wreath.

A hall for a memorial meal.

Panorama of the burials in the cemetery.

The crematorium hall.

A cremation urn.

Transfer of the urn to the relatives of the deceased.

The urn is carried to the burial place.

Burial of an urn with ashes.

A field of blooming poppies.

Columbarium.

Installation of the urn in the columbarium niche.