The Price of Survival
MovieTitle | De prijs van overleven |
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Release date | Sep 26, 2003 |
Genre | Documentary |
Director | Louis van Gasteren |
Production country | Netherlands |
Production companies | Spectrum Films, Euro-Television Productions |
Run time | 56 min. |
More than thirty years ago, Louis van Gasteren made the documentary BEGRIJPT U NU WAAROM IK HUIL? about a therapeutic LSD session that professor Jan Bastiaans did with a traumatised ex-prisoner of German concentration camps. The patient died in late 2000 at the age of 81. He left a wife and three children. Poignant conversations with the widow and youngest son, and excerpts from letters from the other two children reveal that a concentration camp syndrome can also inflict deep wounds in those who have not personally experienced it.