Reunion (1989)

Directed by

Jerry Schatzberg

Genre

drama film

Country

Germany, United Kingdom, France

Runtime

1h 50m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 24 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man looks back on his friendship with a boy from an aristocratic family in 1930s Germany, before the rise of Nazism tore them apart.

melancholicreflectivepoignantgentlebittersweetsomberslow-burnatmospheric

What happens

Reunion is a 1989 British drama film based on the 1971 novel of the same name by Fred Uhlman, directed by Jerry Schatzberg from a screenplay by Harold Pinter. It stars Jason Robards. The film was released in France under the title L' Ami Retrouvé and in Germany as Der wiedergefundene Freund. The story is centred on the "enchanted friendship" of two teenagers in 1933 English-speaking Germany. Hans Strauss (Christien Anholt) is the son of a Jewish doctor and Konradin von Lohenburg (Samuel West) is from an aristocratic family. The background is the rise of Nazism. Jason Robards plays the older Hans in the 1970s as he prepares to travel to Germany for the first time since the 1930s. The film was shot on location in Berlin, New York and Stuttgart. Reunion was nominated for a Golden Palm at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival. A restored version of the film was given a two-week theatrical release by Rialto Pictures in April 2026 at the Film Forum in New York City. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

More like this

• Spider's Web (1989)
• Don't Cry My Love (1989)
• Follow Me (1989)
• Corps perdus (1989)
• Wait Until Spring, Bandini (1989)
• Cinq jours en juin (1989)
• The War Is Over (1989)
• The Woman from Rose Hill (1989)