The Survivors

The Survivors

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Status

Released

Release Date

Oct 28, 1996

Runtime

1h 30m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

40%

Original Title

Die Überlebenden

Production Companies

Journal-Film Klaus Volkenborn KG

Director

Andres Veiel

Description

Three suicides leave long-lasting gaps among a group of classmates, many years after their graduation. Director and former classmate Andres Veiel organizes a reunion in search of clues. Despite huge differences in their personalities, the course their lives took and how each died, the three young men are indicative of life in a southwestern German small town in the 1980s. Pressure and career expectations from parents clash with adolescent desire for creative or sexual fulfillment. Even years later, the unspoken reflects the unspeakable that plagues the bereaved.