De Prijs van Overleven (2003)

Name: De Prijs van Overleven
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2024-03-26T20:59:16+01:00
Rating: 3.75

Documentary | 56 minutes

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Genre: Documentary

Duration: 56 minuten

Alternative title: The Price of Survival

Country: Netherlands

Directed by: Louis van Gasteren

IMDb score: 9,1 (14)

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.