The Deathless Woman is a ghost story for the 21st Century.

This urgent and magical hybrid documentary fluidly interweaves fantastical re-imaginings of buried secrets with a ghostly narration and direct to camera testimony from survivors and witnesses of historic and contemporary crimes against the Roma in Poland and Hungary.

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.

‘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 Film Festival Director)

‘Captivating experimental feature… Mortimer’s a supreme talent – few else could have made a movie quite like this’ Screen on Screen

Producer: Roz Mortimer
Camera: Peter Emery
Editor: Daniel Goddard
Composer: Stefan Smith
Sound Design: Chu-Li Shewring, Stefan Smith
Writer: Roz Mortimer
Script Editor: Margaret Glover