• Feature Film
  • Drama

Styx

Rike – 40, a doctor from Europe – embodies a typical Western model of happiness and success. She is educated, confident, determined and committed. We see Rike‘s everyday life, as an emergency doctor, before she fulfils a long-held dream and sails out to sea alone in her sailing boat.
Her goal: Ascension Island in the Atlantic Ocean.
But her dream holiday is quickly broken off on the high seas, when, after a storm, she finds herself near a stricken fishing boat. Around a hundred people are about to drown. Rike follows maritime law and radios for help. As her request is going nowhere, she is forced to make a fatal decision.

Data

Genre
Drama
Category
Feature Film
Financing
Minority coproduction
Format
Digital Video, 94 Min
Release
23.11.2018
Distribution
FILMLADEN Filmverleih GmbH
Admissions
6.415
Funding Film Institute
250.000 €
Share of Austrian production costs
47 %
Share of total production costs
9 %
Co-production

Schiwago Film (DE, 80%)

International funding

Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, Eurimages, Malta Film Commission, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Deutscher Film und Fernsehfonds, FFA, BKM

VoD Release
23.05.2019
DVD Release
14.03.2019
Funding program
ÖFI
Film location
Malta, Germany
Shooting time
October - December 2016
Days of shooting
33
Completion
Spring 2018
Funding institutions Austria
Filminstitut
Credits
Production
AMOUR FOU Vienna GmbH
Producer Austria
Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu, Bady Minck
Director
Wolfgang Fischer
Script
Wolfgang Fischer, Ika Künzel
DOP
Benedict Neuenfels
Editor
Monika Willi
Sound engineer
Andreas Turnwald
Sound design
Uwe Dresch, Andre Zimmermann
Costume design
Nicole Fischnaller
Set design
Wolfgang Fischer, Ika Künzel, Benedict Neuenfels, Volker Rehm
Music
Dirk von Lowtzow
Cast
Susanne Wolf (Rike), Gedion Oduor Wekesa (Kingsley)
Production manager
Dirk Seibert
International distribution
Beta Cinema
Television investment
WDR/ARTE

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