Saturday, May 02, 2009   Richard Solarz & Fredrik von
Krusenstjerna | 2008 | 95 mins | Sweden  It's springtime and
documentaries are in the air again. I kicked off my Hot Docs
experience this year with Necrobusiness, a doc with very
compelling and grizzly premise. Everyone knows that the funeral
business is a racket designed to make bereaved people part with
as much money as possible during a time when they're neither
capable of thinking straight nor interested in bargaining.
Still, the high cost of coffins is nothing compared to the
horrific reality of Poland's death industry.  Investigative
journalist Monika Sieradzka begins her journey in the mid-sized
city of Lódz, Poland, where she's trying to get an interview
with a prominent funeral director, Witold Skrzydlewski, after an
attempt is made on his life. The man accused of trying to kill
him is a local medical examiner named Tomalski who appears to
have at one point been a business associate of his victim's.  As
Sieradzka digs deeper into the tangle of par