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Styx

  • 2018
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 34m
IMDb RATING
6.5/10
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Styx (2018)
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"Styx" depicts the transformation of a strong woman torn from her contented world during a sailing trip."Styx" depicts the transformation of a strong woman torn from her contented world during a sailing trip."Styx" depicts the transformation of a strong woman torn from her contented world during a sailing trip.

  • Director
    • Wolfgang Fischer
  • Writers
    • Ika Künzel
    • Wolfgang Fischer
  • Stars
    • Susanne Wolff
    • Gedion Oduor Wekesa
    • Kelvin Mutuku Ndinda
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.5/10
    3.6K
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    • Director
      • Wolfgang Fischer
    • Writers
      • Ika Künzel
      • Wolfgang Fischer
    • Stars
      • Susanne Wolff
      • Gedion Oduor Wekesa
      • Kelvin Mutuku Ndinda
    • 35User reviews
    • 81Critic reviews
    • 78Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 30 wins & 20 nominations total

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    Susanne Wolff
    Susanne Wolff
    • Rike
    Gedion Oduor Wekesa
    • Kingsley
    Kelvin Mutuku Ndinda
    • Kelvin
    Inga Birkenfeld
    Inga Birkenfeld
    • Assistant Doctor Marie
    Alexander Beyer
    Alexander Beyer
    • Paul
    Dominik Böth
    • Firefighter Captain
    Anika Menger
    • Paramedic #1
    Mario Mangion
    • Paramedic #2
    Chris Spiteri
    • Combat Medic
    • (voice)
    Charlie Galea
    • Radio Operator Pulpca
    • (voice)
    Simon Sansone
    Simon Sansone
    • Radio Operator Coastguard Male
    • (voice)
    Felicity Babao
    • Radio Operator Coastguard Female
    • (voice)
    David Ellul
    • Rescue personnel
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Wolfgang Fischer
    • Writers
      • Ika Künzel
      • Wolfgang Fischer
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    8Pairic

    A Disturbing Tale Of The Sea And Refugees

    Styx: A tale of the cruel sea and even crueler life. Rike (Susanna Wolff) takes a break from her traumatic work life as an emergency doctor in Berlin. Getting away from it all she is sailing her yacht from Gibraltar to Ascension Island, to visit the artificial jungle designed by Charles Darwin. A storm interrupts her journey and when it has passed she spots a trawler adrift, overloaded with distressed people. Contacting the Coastguard she is told that help will be dispatched and to keep away from the trawler as her yacht is too small to assist those onboard. The refugees start to jump overboard and one boy makes it to her boat.nA traumatic tale then unfolds. Her very presence is causing chaos as people jump into the water and drown. She can barely care for the boy, Kingsley (Gedion Oduor Wekesa).

    One person faced with unenviable choices, hard to ignore nearby suffering but aware that your yacht will be swamped if you approach the trawler. Waiting for help to arrive but frustrated by delays. Wondering how seriously the plight of the refugees is being taken. We see the sea in all of its fury during the storm as Rike has to stay at the helm but also when i is calm but bot becalmed. She then reads her books about Ascension, swims and sunbathes. This is literally the calm before the storm of encountering the trawler. A film which left me silent and a bit stunned as the end credits went up. Director/co-writer Wolfgang Fischer relates a heart scalding story about one person encountering the reality of the fate which faces so many who flee conflicts or who are just seeking a better life. 8/10
    6deloudelouvain

    Not a lot of action but a clear message.

    Overall Styx isn't a bad movie. It might be a bit slow but that's exactly what I would imagine if I was on a solitary trip sailing the oceans. The calmness, the solitude, the awareness of everything that surrounds you, it seems all normal to me that this story is told in a slow pace. As for the moral of the story it's something typical for our times, we look at refugees as they are a plague and not worth of our time, and this while they are human beings like you and me. It's a depressing story and it should be. We're living in a me me me-world and Styx reflects that totally. Not many actors in this movie but Susanne Wolff did a good job playing her character. Don't expect action scenes or whatever, Styx is more about questioning ourselves.
    8Blue-Grotto

    we are all one

    A luxury car crashes in Cologne. Rike, a middle-aged doctor, takes care of the injured with a calmness, sophistication and detachment that belies the chaotic scene. She displays the same characteristics in beginning a solitary boat trip from Gibraltar to distant Ascension Island. Alone on the ocean swells with the sound of the wind and waves, Rike dreams of reaching the wild untouched nature that Darwin spoke of in "the Creation of Paradise." Passing through a fierce storm for which she is well prepared, this clever and independent woman encounters something else that she is not ready for. This real-world problem will shake Rike to her core. She straddles the border to the underworld on the River Styx.

    Rike deals with issues that are currently great troubles in the world; immigration and the divide between rich and poor, but also something inside herself and her oath as a doctor. There is little dialogue to Styx. Instead there is sumptuous photography including panoramic shots above the ocean, and the ambient sounds of wind and waves. The film is well made and acted. The lack of dialogue is the strength of the film, but also its weakness.

    I liked the first half of the film better than the last half. I think this is because I was looking forward to learning about the wild nature of Ascension Island and the "paradise" that Darwin found. But Rike never gets there. Indeed, the world will never get to this paradise if we don't learn to help each other, heal the environment that sustains us, and that we are all as Black Elk maintained "hoops within other hoops."
    8ayoreinf

    What does a lean approach to directing mean

    One small point before touching the question in the title, that is the title of the movie. For those who didn't put too much effort into their Greek mythology studies. Styx is the name of the river leading from the land of the living into the land of the dead in the Greek mythology. Even more important is the fact that passangers on that river must have money with them or they won't be allowed into the land of the dead and will remain on the river for a century, in a greek version of Limbo.

    Now that the movie's title makes sense, I'll discuss my own title. When a director chooses a lean approach to movie making, it means not using camera tricks not using any CGI, but rather making his own presence and the cinematographer's almost unnoticeable. And that's exactly what Wolfgang Fischer does, that is apart from two early scenes in the movie involving monkies. And in my humble opinion the movie would've been better without these scenes.

    One last point: when one chooses a lean approach to directing it usually calls for a lot more from the actors. We get only two in this film, and the two of them are superb. Susanne Wolff and Gedion Odour Weseka, don't act their roles, they are the characters they portrey.
    8icirab

    Reality of our days

    This film shows the distance between 2 worlds separated by the river Styx, the hate river. The "civilised" world where you are rescued no matter the costs (the navy will come for only one person) and the world where the people are considered that does not worth to be saved, where the people, even that they are like you and me, are treated with disrespect and where lives are not important. None will come to save hundreds.

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    • Trivia
      Rike's yacht, Asa Gray, is named after an eminent 19th century American botanist.
    • Goofs
      A small boy (the one she saves) manages to push Rike down by *pulling* sideways on her lapels.
    • Quotes

      Rike: Pulpca, these people need help. Over.

      Radio Operator Pulpca: Unfortunately our company has a strict policy in such cases. I'm sorry.

      Rike: Pulpca, these people are going to die. Over.

      Radio Operator Pulpca: Asa Gray, I really cannot risk my job.

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    • Release date
      • February 26, 2019 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • Germany
      • Austria
      • Netherlands
      • Malta
    • Official sites
      • Beta Cinema (Germany)
      • Beta Film (Germany)
    • Languages
      • English
      • German
    • Also known as
      • Stiga
    • Filming locations
      • Gibraltar Harbour, Gibraltar(on location)
    • Production companies
      • Schiwago Film
      • Amour Fou Vienna
      • Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR)
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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $70,794
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $3,420
      • Mar 3, 2019
    • Gross worldwide
      • $118,188
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 34 minutes
    • Color
      • Color

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