Storyline
A young woman's desperate search for her abducted boyfriend that draws her into the infamous Colonia Dignidad, a sect nobody ever escaped from.
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Daniel Brühl, Martin Wuttke, Michael Nyqvist, Vicky Krieps, Emma Watson, Richenda Carey, August Zirner, Melania Lenoir, Pietro Gian, Justina Bustos, Jeanne Werner, Julian Ovenden, Nicolás Barsoff, Steve Karier, Stefan Merki, Lucila Gandolfo, Johannes Allmayer, Gilles Soeder, Katharina Müller-Elmau, Paul Herwig, Oscar Ali Garci, Etienne Halsdorf, Jules Waringo, Johannes Frolich, Lauren Jane Pringle, Alexia Moyano, Lydia Stevens, Natalia Señorales, Marcelo Vilaro, Iván Espeche, Gastón Filgueira, Martine Conzemius, Cuco Wallraff, Pedro Merlo, Lalo Rotaveria, Carlos Alejandro Lopez, Jose Antonio Coello Porras, Stephan Szasz, Edgar Moro, Jasper Timm, Rouven Blessing, César Bordón, Herbert Forthuber, Éric Gigout, Éric Gigout, Ariel Nuñez Di Croce
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Reviews
63
Although genuinely gripping — at times, uncomfortably so — the tale of Lena and Daniel’s efforts to escape from Colonia and expose its abuses suffers from a heavy-handed telling.
50
Rushed and full of cinematic artifice, Gallenberger and Torsen Wenzel‘s script reveals itself to be devoid of the naturalism the leads are desperately trying to supply.
50
The end product is a standard-issue cult drama that nevertheless has its gripping moments thanks mainly to the presence of Emma Watson.
40
Arizona Republic
Unfortunately, what the filmmaker has wound up with is something that feels like it should be playing at the bottom end of a triple bill at a drive-in.
30
The leads are given the thankless task of maintaining grim poker faces through scene after scene of high contrivance and cliche-ridden dialogue.
