Archive of films Styx / Styx

Germany / Austria
2018, 94 min

Section: Another View
Year: 2018

A successful German doctor fulfils a long-held dream to sail across the Atlantic Ocean. She is prepared for anything – at least she thinks she is. However, her pilgrimage to Ascension Island is cut short when she comes across a boat overloaded with refugees.


Synopsis

Now in her mid-30s, Rike has everything a European could wish for – she’s successful, educated, and well provided for. Yet, as an overworked emergency doctor, she really needs time off and finally sets out alone from Gibraltar on a long-planned trip across the ocean in a small sailing boat. Her silent battle with the elements and sea currents, however, is soon interrupted when she encounters a refugee boat which doesn’t respond to radio contact. Rike will have to decide whether to continue her journey or try to attempt a rescue mission. But they won’t all fit in her boat… A visceral allegory of the modern world, this is the story of a confident woman who discovers that humanity ends in international waters.

Nikola Paggio

About the director

Wolfgang Fischer

Wolfgang Fischer (b. 1970, Vienna, Austria). Selected filmography: Remake of the Remake (1999, doc.), What You Don’t See (Was du nicht siehst, 2009), The Bear (2013), “The Highway of Tears” (2014, TV series), Styx (2018)

Contacts

Beta Cinema GmbH
Grünwalder Weg 28d, 820 41, Oberhaching/Munich
Germany
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E-mail: [email protected]
www: www.betacinema.com

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About the film

Color, DCP

Section: Another View
   
Director: Wolfgang Fischer
Screenplay: Wolfgang Fischer, Ika Kuenzel 
Dir. of Photography: Benedict Neuenfels
Editor: Monika Willi
Art Director: Aza Gray
Producer: Marcos Kantis, Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu, Martin Lehwald, Michal Pokorny
Production: Schiwago Film GmbH
Coproduction: Amour Fou Vienna GmbH
Cast: Susanne Wolff, Gedion Wekesa Oduor
Sales: Beta Cinema GmbH

Guests

Cosima Finkbeiner

Sales Agent

Wolfgang Fischer

Film Director


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