"We do what we have to do to survive."

05.10.2019

Toward the end of 2018, a movie entitled Where Hands Touch was released in the UK in selected cinemas. A lot has been said about this movie - and not only good things - but there is only one thing you gotta know: Chris is in this movie and he is playing Mr Heinz Weissmüller, a high ranking SS officer of the German Army.

What is Where Hands Touch about?

The film is a rite-of-passage story of a biracial teenage girl falling in love with a member of the Hitler Youth and struggling for survival in Nazi Germany. The protagonist, Leyna, is portrayed as a German nationalist, and somewhat antisemitic. Lutz is the son of a high ranking SS officer, and is initially an enthusiastic member of the Hitler Youth.

After Leyna and Lutz fall in love, she becomes pregnant. However, she gets sent to a Nazi labour camp where she must keep her pregnancy secret (as she is supposed to have been sterilized). Lutz is also stationed at the camp as an SS guard. After a bombing by the French, he attempts to escape with Leyna when he is killed by his father. Leyna, shocked, stays still on the ground until a French soldier comes to take her. Seven weeks later, she is heavily pregnant and she is in the displaced area where she reunites with her mother and brother.

The movie is available on DVD and Bluray since May 10.

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