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Colonia

2015

Florian Gallenberger

Emma Watson, Daniel Brühl, Michael Nyqvist, Julian Ovenden ...

5.9

3,491

Thriller. Drama Young German newlyweds Lena (Emma Watson) and Daniel (Daniel Brühl) get separated during the 1973 Chilean military coup against president Salvador Allende. Lena finds out that Daniel has been abducted by Pinochet’s secret police and tracks him to a wooded area in the South of the country, called Colonia Dignidad (Dignity Colony). The Colonia presents itself as a charitable mission run by lay preacher Paul Schäfer (Michael Nyqvist) but ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Jordan Mintzer The Hollywood Reporter	"A dictatorship of poor filmmaking. (...) 'Colonia' marks a truly misguided attempt to fabricate a Hollywood-style thriller out of the darkest quarters of Latin American history"	NEG
United States	Dennis Harvey Variety	"Just might work as a glossy thrill ride for viewers oblivious to the actual events it haplessly trivializes"	NEG
United States	Kevin Jagernauth IndieWire	"The cast deserves better, as does the audience, and more importantly, so do the actual victims of Colonia Dignidad. 'Colonia' opens the history books, but doesn’t turn the pages"	NEG
United Kingdom	Screendaily	""Gallenberger’s no doubt well-intentioned venture (...) is crassly insensitive and hopelessly inadequate (...) It is a fascinating story but 'Colonia' singularly fails to do it justice."	NEG

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