Sony Pictures Picks Up Amma Asante’s WWII Drama ‘Where Hands Touch’Posted by Wilson Morales
May 23, 2017
Source: Variety
Variety has reported that Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions picked up the rights to writer-director Amma Asante’s World War II drama “Where Hands Touch,” which stars Amandla Stenberg (“The Hunger Games”) and George MacKay (“Captain Fantastic”) in a story of forbidden love in Nazi Germany.
Also cast in the film are Abbie Cornish, Christopher Eccleston and Tom Sweet added to the cast.
Sony has picked up most of international, excluding select European territories and Australia. Protagonist Pictures is selling the film in Cannes.
Fifteen-year-old Leyna (Stenberg), daughter of a white German mother and a black father, meets Lutz (MacKay), the son of a prominent SS officer, and a member of the Hitler Youth. “They fall helplessly in love, putting their lives at risk as all around them the persecution of Jews and those deemed ‘non-pure’ slowly unfolds,” according to a statement. “Does their love stand a chance amidst violence and hatred?”
Charlie Hanson is producing and Academy Award-nominated British-Nigerian cinematographer Remi Adefarasin is Director of Photography.
“Where Hands Touch” is a Tantrum Films / Pinewood Pictures Production, co-produced with UMedia and financed by BFI, Isle of Man, HeadGear and British Film Company.
“Amma Asante is a skillful storyteller whose films reach a wide audience,” Protagonist Pictures CEO Mike Goodridge said. “We couldn’t be happier that our friends at SPWA have embraced her bold vision of a young biracial girl struggling to survive in Nazi Germany.”
