Movie

The Price of Survival

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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.

Director

Louis van Gasteren

Screenplay

Louis van Gasteren

Screenplay

Joke Meerman

Status

Released

Release date

26/09/2003

Original language

Dutch