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Where Hands Touch

  • 2018
  • PG-13
  • 2h 2m
IMDb RATING
6.6/10
6.1K
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Amandla Stenberg in Where Hands Touch (2018)
Amandla Stenberg stars in this coming of age story about a bi-racial teenager struggling for survival in Nazi Germany.
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A rites of passage story of a bi-racial teen struggling for survival in Nazi Germany.A rites of passage story of a bi-racial teen struggling for survival in Nazi Germany.A rites of passage story of a bi-racial teen struggling for survival in Nazi Germany.

  • Director
    • Amma Asante
  • Writer
    • Amma Asante
  • Stars
    • Amandla Stenberg
    • Jack Sandle
    • Abbie Cornish
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    • Director
      • Amma Asante
    • Writer
      • Amma Asante
    • Stars
      • Amandla Stenberg
      • Jack Sandle
      • Abbie Cornish
    • 69User reviews
    • 23Critic reviews
    • 44Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 3 nominations total

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    Amandla Stenberg
    Amandla Stenberg
    • Leyna
    Jack Sandle
    Jack Sandle
    • Gestapo #1
    Abbie Cornish
    Abbie Cornish
    • Kerstin
    Tom Sweet
    Tom Sweet
    • Koen
    Janet Amsden
    • Frau Heinrich
    Ken Bradshaw
    • SS Man #1
    Lucy Russell
    Lucy Russell
    • Teacher
    George MacKay
    George MacKay
    • Lutz
    Tom Goodman-Hill
    Tom Goodman-Hill
    • Wihelm Warner
    Natasha Little
    Natasha Little
    • Hida
    Will Attenborough
    Will Attenborough
    • Gunter
    Christopher Eccleston
    Christopher Eccleston
    • Heinz
    Carol MacReady
    Carol MacReady
    • Frau Nagel
    Ciarán Owens
    Ciarán Owens
    • SS Officer #5
    Ethan Rouse
    Ethan Rouse
    • Sebastian
    Michael McKell
    Michael McKell
    • Gestapo #4
    Nicholas Lumley
    • Jann
    Ewan Bailey
    Ewan Bailey
    • SS Officer #6
    • Director
      • Amma Asante
    • Writer
      • Amma Asante
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    9debeautymarshall-190-662830

    Heartbreaking

    This movie was so very sad. I'm sure there were many stories like this during that time period in Germany. I cannot not digest man's inhumanity to man no matter what religion or race the are. So very disturbing. In my opinion this was a very well acted movie. The ending! Bittersweet. I don't understand how anybody could give it a bad review. I believe,actually that this should have been shown on the big screen. It would have done well
    7baharuka

    Fascism and love

    I don't think the movie deserves the worst reviews it got on here. It delivered an accurate depiction of the ruthlessness of fascism, which I am unfortunately familiar with, and of love between two young people. The acting was good to brilliant in my opinion. There were some scenes that were a little too long or not exactly necessary and I can't tell if the script fits the reality of those days a hundred percent but overall, it was a good watch.
    VoyagerMN1986

    Important story -- terribly done

    Someone suggested that all the low ratings from the professional critics and viewers here are the result of some kind of bias.

    Seriously recoiling and critiquing lousy film making, so bad that the message is -- "I love Romeo the Nazi" -- is an expression of bias?

    I think virtually all of us panning this film *want* to give it a high rating for the story it is attempting to tell. But the clichés, terrible scripting, absolutely abysmal acting do not do credit to the story of attitudes toward biracial children in Nazi Germany (or virtually anywhere in the world where they were mostly seen as genetic and social threats).

    The bravery and resilience of the young woman simply do not come through at all. It was an opportunity to present her as superior in every way and instead the writers decided to overlay a sanguine and utterly not credible "Romeo and Juliet" nonsense over the story, obliterating the meaning and actual genuine drama.

    We get no explanation, none at all as to why this brave young biracial girl would fall in love with a Nazi who shows no real trepidation at being part of the machinery that will kill Jews, a lot of other people, and destroy Europe.

    FYI the young actress, Amandla Stenberg, is actually a good actress. Abby Cornish once again proves she has lucked into a couple of roles, but in general she is at best a mediocre to poor actress.
    8bashum-65733

    Shame on haters

    I'm so so disappointed about the reaction of many people here voting for this movie to have a result of 5.5/10... not about the filming, not about the actors or the make-up but before all of that thinks everybody need to know this kind of story wasn't fiction. We can't treat this movie like a science fiction movie or something "distracting" because it had happen 70 years ago, it was real, so many people had suffering that way. We need to remember to make that thinks never happen again. That movie need to be show on schools to teach how fascism work and show how point basic racism is stupid
    8arthur_tafero

    An Eternal Gem - Where Hands Touch

    I have seen every Holocaust film ever made of any note. Schindler's List is very good; as was Seven Beauties by Wertmuller. I thought Life is Beautiful was overrated. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas was far superior to Life is Beautiful. Most Holocaust films are very powerful, but a few are stereotypical. After Sophie's Choice, which I thought was the most powerful of all Holocaust films, I had a tendency to avoid reviewing any more of them. Then this film came along, and became the best Holocaust film of all time; every bit the equal of Schindler's List. This is due mostly to the performance of the outstanding young actress, Amandia Stenberg, who overwhelms the screen in every scene she is in. She will be a talent to be reckoned with for decades to come. Why some idiots are rating this film below a 7 is beyond my comprehension, although there are a lot more stupid people in the world than there are knowledgeable ones; so that might be an explanation. Be part of the world that isn't stupid, and view this film as soon as you can; you will not be disappointed.

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    • Trivia
      Epilogue accompanying photographs from World War II: "Approximately 25,000 Black Germans existed under the Third Reich, including Rhineland children. Some perished in the camp system and others survived to be liberated in 1945. Together with those teens who escaped sterilisation, the survivors defied Hitler's vision of a future Germany without Black Germans."
    • Goofs
      In the "womens camps" there were few male "overseers". Virtually all the germans who interacted with the prisoners in the women's camps were females, and the women guards on the whole were notorious for being more sadistic than the male guards.
    • Quotes

      Leyna: As I reached sixteen, I realized Hitler had a plan for us.

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    • Release date
      • September 14, 2018 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • United Kingdom
      • United States
      • Isle of Man
      • Belgium
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Де торкаються руки
    • Production companies
      • British Film Company
      • Head Gear Films
      • Metrol Technology
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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $67,743
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $67,743
      • Sep 16, 2018
    • Gross worldwide
      • $128,269
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      2 hours 2 minutes
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    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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