Styx

Styx
6.3

Styx

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Directed by: Wolfgang Fischer

Overview

Rike is forty, a successful doctor whose job demands everything of her. She intends to use her much-needed annual holiday to fulfill her long-cherished dream of sailing alone from Gibraltar to Ascension, a small tropical island in the middle of the Atlantic. Her desire for a carefree holiday seems to be coming to pass but then, after a storm, her beautiful adventure suddenly turns into an unprecedented challenge when she spots a badly damaged, hopelessly overloaded refugee boat nearby.

Reviews (2)

  • SWITCH. (Rated: 8)

    'Styx' reminds us of the plight of refugees who risk everything in the ocean, and the damage caused by bureaucracy and by-the-book policy. A work of nail-biting drama that is not only superbly executed but exceedingly timely, it is a film that deserves to be screened widely in Australia so it can be...

  • Stephen Campbell (Rated: 7)

    A story about a choice between two equally untenable options

    the

    go home blacks

    refugees

    dirty immigrants

    asylum seekers

    sucking our country dry

    niggers with their hands out

    they smell strange

    savage

    _messed up their country and now the...

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