Styx

Styx

2018 · 94 min · DE · 6.4 (77 votes)
Dir. Wolfgang Fischer · Starring Susanne Wolff, Alexander Beyer, Inga Birkenfeld, Gedion Oduor Wekesa, Kelvin Mutuku Ndinda
Drama

Rike is forty, a successful doctor whose job demands everything of her. She intends to use her much-needed annual holiday to fulfill her long-cherished dream of sailing alone from Gibraltar to Ascension, a small tropical island in the middle of the Atlantic. Her desire for a carefree holiday seems to be coming to pass but then, after a storm, her beautiful adventure suddenly turns into an unprecedented challenge when she spots a badly damaged, hopelessly overloaded refugee boat nearby.

VIBE

A stark, unsettling drama that transforms a dream vacation into a harrowing test of conscience. It's a quiet, intense experience that leaves you contemplating the vastness of the ocean and the weight of human responsibility.

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