ELKARREKIN BERRIZ / REENCUENTRO

The action takes place in the early 1960s, in the modest theatre of a public high school in New York, where Hans Schwartz, a successful lawyer, and his cousin Sarah, a brilliant violinist, altruistically direct a small youth choir. One morning, at the school itself, Hans receives a letter from a German historian informing him that, while researching the archives of an aristocratic German family, the Hohenfels, he found a sealed envelope addressed to Hans Schwartz. On the outside, there is a note in which Count Konradin Hohenfels asks his father to find Hans and make sure the envelope reaches him. Faced with the evidence that the father never fulfilled this wish, the historian himself has decided, twenty years later, to send the envelope and honour Konradin’s will.

In this surprising way, the unexpected “reunion” between Hans, the son of a well-off Jewish family, and Konradin takes place. When they were sixteen, they shared, in Germany, not only an elite school, but also passions, confidences and arguments… in short, a deep friendship that was abruptly destroyed by the rise of Nazism and Hans’s flight to the United States. More than twenty years later, they have never heard from one another again. Until today…