Three Identical Strangers is a critically acclaimed documentary film that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2018. The film tells the story of three triplets – Bobby, Eddy, and David – who were separated at birth and adopted by different families. The triplets reunited by chance when they were 19 years old, and their reunion was a media sensation. However, their joyous reunion was only the beginning of a complex and tragic tale of identity, nature, and nurture that raises deep ethical questions about scientific research and human welfare.
The film takes us on a fascinating journey through the lives of the triplets and their families, as well as the secretive and unethical experiment that was responsible for their separation. The experiment was conducted in the late 1950s and early 1960s by a renowned psychiatrist, Dr. Peter Neubauer, who was interested in exploring the impact of nature and nurture on human behavior. Neubauer recruited several pairs of