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De Prijs van Overleven (2003)

Documentary | 56 minutes
3,75 10 votes

Genre: Documentary

Duration: 56 minuten

Alternative title: The Price of Survival

Country: Netherlands

Directed by: Louis van Gasteren

IMDb score: 9,2 (15)

Releasedate: 26 September 2003

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De Prijs van Overleven plot

"The Price of Survival" is a sequel to "Do You Now Understand Why I Cry?" from 1969, the recording of a therapeutic LSD session by professor Jan Bastiaans with a former concentration camp inmate. What happened next in the family whose father transferred his camp situation to his wife and children with his post-traumatic stress syndrome? The upbringing of the other two children is outlined by means of interviews with the widow and the youngest son and letters to the film-maker. The phenomenon of identification with suffering goes so far that women and children have nightmares of camp experiences they have never had. Traumas and consequences are also discussed by the director of the Sachsenhausen memorial site, the camp in which the father spent most of his captivity.

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Continuation of this controversial documentary. The end of that documentary suggests that the therapy was very successful, but nothing turns out to be further from the truth.

Joop, the father, was in concentration camps for 4 years. After the war he had 3 children. Unfortunately, the eldest child became a girl, the name had already been decided, Rudi, named after 'his best friend from the camp', a yoke that his daughter had to carry with her. The family only talked about the concentration camps, literally everything was associated with them.

It is not surprising that the two eldest said goodbye to their parents around the age of twenty, the eldest son even changed his surname. The youngest son is the only one who maintains contact with his parents. He and his wife have decided not to have children, purely out of fear. However, he also has had enough when his mother wants to scatter his father's ashes over the landscape of one of the labor camps.

“I was emotionally murdered by my parents,” that says it all.

So talking too much is disastrous. Personally, I have experienced the opposite. The war was not discussed in the family. All I knew was that my grandfather had housed a family of Jews on the farm. That was all the grandchildren knew; At his funeral, during the church service, we are then told that it had not ended well and that he had been assigned the task of prying gold teeth from gassed corpses in a concentration camp for about a year... The otherwise 'pleasant coffee table' had a charged realm. Complete silence is not the best option either, it has bothered him all his life. That's why he was afraid of the dentist (even dentures were out of the question) and I never saw him walking around with short sleeves in my entire life. The human psyche is strangely constructed.

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