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- Where Hands Touch is just as elegantly made, but it tackles an even broader swath of history, and despite a tilt toward melodrama is even more wrenching in its emotional impact.
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Apr 8, 2023 · Naman Shrestha. Updated April 8, 2023. Written and directed by Amma Asante, ‘Where Hands Touch’ is a 2018 romantic war drama movie set in 1944 Nazi Germany that follows a 15-year-old girl named Leyna. Being the daughter of a white German mother and a black African father, Leyla constantly lives in fear due to the color of her skin in the ...
Jan 4, 2019 · Panic engulfs a Nazi concentration camp, and Leyna (Amandla Stenberg), a black young woman, rushes to embrace Lutz (George MacKay), her lover. She’s a prisoner and he’s a Nazi guard. Holocaust ...
Sep 13, 2018 · Yet the new Holocaust-set film Where Hands Touch isn't based on a true story, though it does use historical facts to share realistic tales. Where Hands Touch stars Amandla Stenberg as a...
- Angelica Florio
Sep 9, 2018 · Where Hands Touch is just as elegantly made, but it tackles an even broader swath of history, and despite a tilt toward melodrama is even more wrenching in its emotional impact. The film starts as ...
Sep 14, 2018 · In the finally finished product of Where Hands Touch, Amandla Stenberg plays Leyna, the child of a white woman and a black man, growing up in Nazi Germany. And while Leyna herself is not based on...
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Box office. $128,269 [2] Where Hands Touch is a 2018 romantic war drama film written and directed by Amma Asante and starring Amandla Stenberg, George MacKay, Abbie Cornish, Christopher Eccleston, and Tom Sweet. It tells a fictional story of Leyna (Stenberg), a teenage girl under threat because of her mixed heritage while surviving in Nazi Germany.
May 10, 2019 · Peter Bradshaw. Fri 10 May 2019 03.00 EDT. T here’s a heartfelt impetus behind Amma Asante ’s new film, a period drama set in Nazi Germany with an interracial theme at its heart. The film gives...
