Styx

Styx

94 mins | Drama | Sept. 13, 2018

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.

Styx

94 mins | Drama | Sept. 13, 2018

Styx
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.
IMDb rating 6.5
Producers Westdeutscher Rundfunk, ARTE, Schiwago Film, Amour Fou Vienna, Twenty13 Productions, Small Island Films
Original title Styx
Directors Wolfgang Fischer
Writers Wolfgang Fischer, Ika Künzel

Cast

Susanne Wolff

as Rike

Alexander Beyer

as Paul

Inga Birkenfeld

as Assistant Doctor Marie

Gedion Oduor Wekesa

as Kinglsey