The Price of Survival

Overview

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

September 26, 2003

Original language

Dutch

Spoken languages

Dutch

Countries

Netherlands

Production

Spectrum Films,Spectrum Film,Euro-Television Productions

Director

Louis van Gasteren

Writer

Louis van Gasteren,Joke Meerman

Producer

Louis van Gasteren,Joke Meerman

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

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