Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 122 min
- Age rating
- PG-13
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
Germany, 1944. Leyna, the 15-year old daughter of a white German mother and a black African father, meets Lutz, a compassionate member of the Hitler Youth whose father is a prominent Nazi soldier, and they form an unlikely connection in this quickly changing world.
- nazi
- jew persecution
- hitler youth
- coming of age
- interracial romance
- racism
- 1940s
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Tom Sweet — Koen
- Alec Newman — Juttner
- Tom Goodman-Hill — Wihelm Warner
- Natasha Little — Hilda
- Will Attenborough — Gunter
- Ethan Rouse — Sebastian
- Nicholas Lumley — Jann
- Michael McKell — Gestapo Commander
- Charles De'Ath — SS Kruger
- Josie Walker — Kapo
- Olivia Vinall — Hermine
- Directed
- Amma Asante
- Written
- Amma Asante
Production
- Rating
- 7.9 / 10 · 540 ratings
- Studio
- Tantrum Films, uMedia, Head Gear Films, Pinewood Pictures, Isle of Man Film, BFI
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
