
Overview:
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.Status: | Released (2018-09-13) |
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Awards: | 30 wins & 20 nominations |
BoxOffice: | $70,794 |
Screen: | Ika Künzel, Wolfgang Fischer |
Productions: | Amour Fou Vienna, Twenty13 Productions, Small Island Films, ARTE, WDR, Schiwago Film |
Production Countries: | Germany, Austria |
Spoken Languages: | Deutsch, English |

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Casts
- 34390: Susanne Wolff - Rike
- 4796: Alexander Beyer - Paul
- 1071512: Inga Birkenfeld - Assistant Doctor Marie
- 1977901: Gedion Oduor Wekesa - Kinglsey
- 2296566: Kelvin Mutuku Ndinda - Kelvin
Crews
- 2939075: Christian Bachmann - Line Producer - Production
- 55491: Monika Willi - Editor - Editing
- 1977897: Ika Künzel - Screenplay - Writing
- 20255: Nicole Fischnaller - Costume Design - Costume & Make-Up
- 25755: Anja Dihrberg - Casting - Production
- 1977898: Wolfgang Fischer - Screenplay - Writing
- 32961: Benedict Neuenfels - Director of Photography - Camera
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Reviews
SWITCH.
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'Styx' reminds us of the plight of refugees who risk everything in the ocean, and the damage caused by bureaucracy and by-the-book policy. A work of nail-biting drama that is not only superbly executed but exceedingly timely, it is a film that deserves to be screened widely in Austra ....
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**_A story about a choice between two equally untenable options_** >_the_ >_go home blacks_ >_refugees_ >_dirty immigrants_ >_asylum seekers_ >_sucking our country dry_ >_niggers with their hands out_ >_they smell strange_ >_savage_ >_messed up their cou ....
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