Not RatedStyx

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Play Time: 94 mins
Drama
Styx

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)
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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'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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Stephen Campbell

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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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