WHERE HANDS TOUCH
by Amma Asante
synopsis
Germany 1944: 15-year old Leyna, daughter of a white German mother and a black African father meets Lutz, a member of the Hitler Youth - compulsory for all Aryan boys since 1936. They are bound by the realisation of the horrors being committed against the Jews, as Leyna tries to avoid the fate of black Germans at the time. Can she find an ally in Lutz, himself battling the fate laid before him?
This is a coming of age story set in the most brutal of times.
| international title: | Where Hands Touch |
| original title: | Where Hands Touch |
| country: | United Kingdom, Belgium |
| sales agent: | Protagonist Pictures |
| year: | 2018 |
| genre: | fiction |
| directed by: | Amma Asante |
| film run: | 122' |
| release date: | UK 10/05/2019 |
| screenplay: | Amma Asante |
| cast: | Abbie Cornish, Amandla Stenberg, Christopher Eccleston, George MacKay, Tom Goodman-Hill, Olivia Vinall, Alec Newman, Lucy Russell, Will Attenborough, Tim Faraday |
| cinematography by: | Remi Adefarasin |
| film editing: | Steve Singleton |
| art director: | Arwel Jones |
| costumes designer: | Pam Downe |
| music: | Anne Chmelewsky |
| producer: | Charlie Hanson |
| co-producer: | Alice Dawson, Adrian Politowski, Bastien Sirodot, Gilles Waterkeyn |
| executive producer: | Christian Eisenbeiss, Phil Hunt, Nadia Khamlichi, Steve Milne, Robert Norris, Compton Ross |
| associate producer: | Tom Harberd |
| line producer: | Stéphane Lhoest |
| production: | Tantrum Films, Umedia, Isle of Man Film Ltd, Pinewood Pictures, Head Gear Films, Metrol Technology, British Film Company |
| backing: | British Film Institute (BFI) |
| distributor: | Spirit Entertainment |
