:22:03
We were only able to film these virtual savages
with the help...
:22:07
...of a friend from Las Hurdes, who acted as intermediary.
:22:13
One day we saw a group of people in front of a doorway.
:22:17
A child has just died.
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The mother.
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A death is one of the rare events in these miserable villages.
:22:41
The women gather at the house of the deceased.
:22:47
It's hard to transport a corpse.
:22:50
Most villages don't have a cemetery.
:22:54
They have to take this child to the cemetery
in Nunomoral.
:22:58
We decided to follow.
:23:00
The body was placed on a trough...
:23:03
...and carried for several miles through the thickets.
:23:06
If the dead person is an adult...
:23:08
...the body is tied to a ladder
and carried to the cemetery.
:23:11
It's a journey that can take hours.
:23:15
Crossing a river with a corpse.
:23:44
Despite the misery in which the Hurdanos live...
:23:47
...their moral and religious sense is the same...
:23:50
... as anywhere else in the world.