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STYX

By Wolfgang FISCHER

Drama - Completed 2017

The transformation of a strong woman torn from her contented world during a sailing trip.

Festivals
& Awards

Berlin European Film Market (EFM) 2018

Berlinale - Berlin IFF 2018

Panorama 2nd place Panorama Audience Award

- Year of production
- 2017
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- GERMANY, AUSTRIA
- Languages
- GERMAN, ENGLISH, SWAHILI
- Duration
- 94 mn
- Director(s)
- Wolfgang FISCHER
- Writer(s)
- Wolfgang FISCHER, Ika KÜNZEL
- Cast
- Susanne WOLFF, Gedion Wekesa ODUOR, Kelvin Mutuku NDINDA
- Producer(s)
- Marcos KANTIS (SCHIWAGO FILM), Martin LEHWALD (SCHIWAGO FILM), Michal POKORNY (SCHIWAGO FILM), Alexander DUMREICHER-IVANCEANU (AMOUR FOU VIENNA), Bady MINCK (AMOUR FOU VIENNA)
- Synopsis
- Rike -40, a doctor from Europe - embodies a typical Western model of happiness and success. She is educated, confident, determined and committed. We see Rike’s everyday life, as an emergency doctor, before she fulfils a long-held dream and sails out to sea alone in her sailing boat. Her goal: Ascension Island in the Atlantic Ocean. But her dream holiday is quickly broken off on the high seas, when, after a storm, she finds herself near a stricken fishing boat. Around a hundred people are about to drown. Rike follows maritime law and radios for help. As her request is going nowhere, she is forced to make a fatal decision.
- Partners & financing
- Filmstiftung NRW
  Austrian Film Institute
  DFFF
  Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg
  Malta Film Commission
  BKM
  FFA
  Eurimages
  WDR
  ARTE