Q&A with protagonist Eric Wrede and filmmaker Michael Schwarz after the screening

• DE 2025
• 79 min
• Director: Michael Schwarz
• FSK: from 6 years

"If you spend a day with Eric Wrede, death loses some of its horror." - Süddeutsche Zeitung Bestselling author Eric Wrede, known as Germany's most unconventional mortician, and his team take us on a touching and relentlessly honest journey to the edge of life in Death is an Asshole. Between crematoriums, living rooms full of memories and conversations with mourners, a film emerges that does not reverently shake hands with death, but rather laughs cheekily in its face. With humor, warmth and a great deal of empathy, the film poses the question: Why do we so consistently repress the inevitable - and what would happen if we finally let death into our lives? Eric Wrede opens doors to a new way of dealing with farewell, pain and memory - sometimes provocative, sometimes profound, but always human.