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.
Acting
Stenberg's silent devastation speaks volumes.
Direction
Asante frames intimacy against monstrous machinery.
Cinematography
Every frame looks like a period painting—too beautiful for the horror.
Director
Amma Asante
Amandla Stenberg
Leyna
George MacKay
Lutz
Abbie Cornish
Kerstin
Christopher Eccleston
Heinz
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
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Rhineland Bastards were real—roughly 800 mixed-race German children forcibly sterilized under Nazi eugenics laws.
Amma Asante fought for years to make this after Belle; she specifically wanted to explore Black European stories erased from WWII narratives.
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