Reunion Movie Review 1988

Robards stars as a Jewish businessman, living in the U.S., who returns to his boyhood home of Stuttgart, Germany some 50 years after his leaving in 1933. He hopes to find out what happened to a boyhood school chum--the son of an artistocractic (and Aryan) German family. Film uses extensive flashbacks to show the the rise of anti-Semitism and how it affects the friendship of both youths. Thoughtfull and well-acted though occasionally plodding drama based on Fred Uhlman's novel.

Distribution

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Available on VHS
Running time 120 minutes.
Originally from French, German, British.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Coming of Age, World War II, Postwar, The Holocaust

Screenplay

Harold Pinter

Cast

Jason Robards, Christien Anholt, Samuel West, Francoise Fabian, Maureen Kerwin, Barbara Jefford, Alexander Trauner

Cinematography

Bruno de Keyzer

Director

Jerry Schatzberg

Producer

Les Films Ariane