STYX

By Wolfgang FISCHER

KARLOVY VARY INT'L FILM FESTIVAL - as FEST

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
Toronto - TIFF 2018
Contemporary World Cinema
BFI London FF 2018
Debate
Stockholm IFF 2018
Stockholm XXVIII Competition
    • 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
    • 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