Attorney Henry Strauss grew up in Germany, but left the country with his Jewish family during the rise of the Third Reich. Still wondering about what happened to his boyhood friend Konradin Von Lohenburg, Strauss travels back to Germany for the first time since he was a young man, bringing up some painful memories.
Acting
Jason Robards carries decades of unspoken grief in every gesture.
Direction
Schatzberg frames memory like fragile, yellowing photographs.
Director
Jerry Schatzberg
Jason Robards
Henry Strauss
Christien Anholt
Hans Strauss
Samuel West
Count Konradin von Lohenburg
Françoise Fabian
Countess von Lohenburg
Maureen Kerwin
Lisa
Tim Barker
Zimmermann
Alan Bowyer
Bollacher
Jacques Brunet
Count von Lohenburg
Rupert Degas
Muller
Robert Dietl
Gardener at Old Grafin's
Luc-Antoine Diquéro
Young Lover
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on Fred Uhlman's autobiographical novel, a slim book that became a Holocaust literature staple.
The film deliberately never shows Kristallnacht directly; the violence happens off-screen, as it does in memory.
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