Germany/Austria, color, 94 min., 2018
Director: Wolfgang Fischer
Main Cast: Susanne Wolff, Gedion Oduor Wekesa, Alexander Beyer and Kelvin Mutuku Ndinda
Genre: Drama
To help or not to help - that is the question... STYX is an experimental setup which sets out to explore this question, which populists all over Europe have currently blown up into an existential issue.This is currently the best German film. Don’t miss it- it will probably only be screened for a few more days!”(M. Strauven)
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 fulfills 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 momentous decision.
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