It has landed online the new trailer for Florian Gallenberger‘s film Colonia, with Emma Watson on the lead role and co-starring Daniel Brühl and Michael Nyqvist.
This film centers around the real-life Colonia Dignidad, a religious compound on the surface, that actually served as cult camp/torture prison for General Augusto Pinochet. In Chile, in 1973, Lufthansa flight attendant Lena (Watson) is in Santiago to visit her boyfriend, Daniel (Brühl), a talented graphic artist creating images in support of embattled President Salvador Allende. When Allende is violently ousted, General Augusto Pinochet’s forces begin rounding up dissidents. Daniel is taken to the remote stronghold of Colonia Dignidad (“Dignity Colony”), home to a secret agricultural commune and crypto-fascist sect led by sinister minister Paul Schäfer (Michael Nyqvist). Daniel is interrogated and tortured, but feigns severe mental deterioration to stay alive. Valiant and wily, Lena travels to Colonia and offers herself up to Schäfer as a follower. She is determined to find and free Daniel — but first she must ensure that she herself can survive Schäfer’s crushingly oppressive, viciously misogynistic practices.
Watch the trailer below:
Colonia opens in theaters and on VOD on April 15th.