Die Überlebenden

After twenty years classmates of a Stuttgart high school meet again. Many of them are successful as doctors, lawyers or teachers.

But three of them are missing because they have committed suicide. director Andreas Veiel emphatically portrays two of them and thus shows the conflicts that the German youth after 1968 had to cope with.

His analysis reaches back to the war and the Nazi past but also touches on individual problems like homosexuality. One of the most convincing docus I have seen.

A very engaging documentary, that centers around a class reunion. 3 people are missing from this reunion party, because they died/committed suicide. The director is/was a member of the class, so he does know the people involved and most of the people he interviews. Which might be a reason, why most of them are very open and talk free about the past and what happened!

Although most of the time everyone talking is honest, you also get disillusioned parents that ramble about their kid's death as if they died under normal circumstances (when it clearly was suicide) ... That's denial for you, but also quite understandable, that the parents will try to forget about something like that! Very well structured, filmed and edited, this is a must see for any documentary film lover!