DESCRIPTION
The far right are rising again in Europe. A Roma woman buried alive in a forest in Poland during WWII returns to haunt us, uncovering a history of atrocities against the Roma in Europe. She is the Deathless Woman. Motivated by rage, she rises from her grave to draw our attention to the persecution of the Roma people from the 1940s to the neo-Nazi hate crimes of the present day.
This urgent and magical hybrid documentary fluidly interweaves fantastical re-imaginings of buried secrets with the Deathless Woman’s ghostly narration and testimony from survivors and witnesses of historic and contemporary crimes against the Roma in Poland and Hungary.
The Deathless Woman is a ghost story for the 21st Century.
GALLERY
Film still from Roz Mortimer’s feature The Deathless Woman. Wonderdog Films 2019 
Loren O’Dair as The Seeker in Roz Mortimer’s feature The Deathless Woman 2019 
Film Still from THE DEATHLESS WOMAN – feature by Roz Mortimer. Wonderdog Films 2019.
REVIEWS
‘A powerful and poetic account of WWII Roma genocide and its contemporary resurrection. Hugely successful on both an artistic and a political level, it is a remarkable piece of work.’
– Trisha Tuttle, BFI London FF Director
‘Deathless Woman’s’ Roz Mortimer on Documenting Far Right Violence Then and Now
– Variety, Will Tizard, Oct 29, 2019
‘Captivating experimental feature… Mortimer’s a supreme talent – few else could have made a movie quite like this.’
– Paddy Mulholland’s review in Screen on Screen
“The Deathless Woman is a rallying call against the far right, warning us that history repeats itself…”
– Joel Whitaker’s review in Dog and Wolf