Synopsis TMDBThree 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.Synopsis OMDBAfter 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.Synopsis Trakt.tvThree 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.
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