The story is centred on the " enchanted friendship " of two teenagers in 1933 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
1989 Cannes Film Festival
1989 Cannes Film Festival
Reunion (1989 film)