Germany / Luxembourg / France 2015
Language: English
Subtitles: German
Director: Florian Gallenberger
Camera: Kolja Brandt
Script: Torsten Wenzel, Florian Gallenberger
Editor: Hansjörg Weißbrich
Cast: Emma Watson, Daniel Brühl, Michael Nyquist
Producer: Benjamin Herrmann
Music: André Dziezuk, Fernando Velázquez
Distributer: Majestic Film Verleih GmbH
Lenght: 110Min.
Color: Farbe
Age Limit: <

“We look at the thrillers of the 1970s that managed to address serious issues in an exciting and entertaining manner with great admiration” says Benjamin Herrmann. “To shoot these kinds of movies seems to be possible again in our time: Movies that take their audience seriously and still manage to thrill. With COLONIA, we want to achieve that.” After the putsch of 1973, Lena and Daniel fall into the clutches of the secret police. Daniel gets abducted. Lena works out, that he is imprisoned in the Colonia Dignidad: an apparently idyllic, German village that collaborates with the dictator Pinochet, who has prisoners tortured and executed. Lena wants to join the infamous cult to rescue Daniel...