Styx

– Rike is forty, a successful doctor whose job demands everything of her. She intends to use her much-..

Type:
Movie
Rating:
6.50 / 10
Duration:
One Hour and 34 Minutes
Release Year:
2018
Styx (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.

Producing Country:
Genre:

Styx (2018) - Trailer

Release Date:

13 Sep 2018

Language:

English, German

Director:

Wolfgang Fischer

Writer:

Ika Künzel, Wolfgang Fischer

Main Actors:

Susanne Wolff, Gedion Oduor Wekesa, Kelvin Mutuku Ndinda, Inga Birkenfeld

Plot:

"Styx" depicts the transformation of a strong woman torn from her contented world during a sailing trip. When she becomes the only person to come to the aid of a group of refugees shipwrecked on the high seas, she is shown the limits of her importance and of the empathy of her cultural milieu. She is left slipping impotently from one nightmare to the next, and by the end she is forced to recognize that there is no way to counter the cruelties of real life. Only chance can save her.

Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
6.5/10
Metacritic:
78%