Cinema· Maastricht
A Prayer for the Dying
**A Prayer for the Dying** is a novel (adapted as a film) set in 1870 Wisconsin, about Jacob Hansen, a Civil War veteran turned sheriff, preacher, and undertaker in a Scandinavian immigrant town, who must confront his violent past and a moral crisis when a deadly diphtheria epidemic strikes the town of Friendship and he is forced to make impossible choices to contain it.