(Facts.com.cn) Emma Watson dives into historic fiction together with her newest status movie "Colonia," which tells the story of a young German couple caught up in the military coup, and is releasing its trailer, according to reports of Imdb.com, Usatoday.com, Hollywoodreporter.com, Digitaltrends.com, Suffieldtimes.com, Screencrush.com, Moviefone.com, Inentertainment.co.uk and Slashfilm.com etc.
Real “Colonia Dignidad” cult leader Paul Schaefer and his compound
Emma Watson’s latest character has seriously bad luck. In Colonia, she plays Lena, a woman who ends up in a cult while trying to find her kidnapped boyfriend. The craziest part is that the film is based on a true story.
Lena and her boyfriend Daniel (Still)
Based mostly on true occasions surrounding the 1973 army coup in Chile, Watson stars as Lena, a German lady who will get separated from her boyfriend Daniel (performed by Daniel Bruhl), an artist working for President Salvador Allende who is captured by the forces of General Augusto Pinochet, after he will get kidnapped by the federal government’s secret police, DINA. She tracks him to Colonia Dignidad ("Dignity Colony"), a religious and agricultural community or a supposed charitable mission run by a lay preacher Paul Sch?fer (performed by Michael Nyqvist), however is in truth a sealed-off cult from which nobody leaves; desperate to get him back, Lena travels to Colonia to infiltrate its ranks and rescue Daniel at any cost.
Paul Schaefer and Lena (Still)
It seems like a crazy idea, and Lena soon learns that Sch?fer's hold on the community -- particularly its women -- is an oppressive one, characterized by brutal manual labor and vicious mental interrogations. He and Lena have an intense face-off in which he cruelly teases the young woman about her devotion to the organization, and dangles her freedom in front of her while questioning if she made the right decision to join.
“I can see doubts, turmoil in your soul,” he tells Lena. “Oh, you think you made a mistake, that you shouldn’t have come here. You regret, you regret deeply.”
Here’s the official description of Colonia from TIFF, which hosted the world premiere of the film this week:
“A blood-curdling unease pervades Colonia, and we are unable to tear ourselves away. Vividly realized and briskly paced by director Florian Gallenberger (City of War: The Story of John Rabe), the film shifts seamlessly from love story to political drama to something akin to a horror movie, with Watson anchoring every sequence with her dynamic yet completely relatable central performance.
Based on real people, places, and events, and shot through with brilliantly crafted storytelling, Colonia is an unforgettable tale of love and captivity set during one of the Cold War’s darkest chapters.”
Watson is best known for starring in the Harry Potter franchise, but she has also appeared in a variety of other films. Her credits include Noah, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, My Week with Marilyn, and more. She’s set to appear in another upcoming thriller as well: Regression with Ethan Hawke.
Colonia was co-written by Academy Award winner Florian Gallenberger and Torsten Wenzel. Gallenberger also directed, while Benjamin Herrmann produced, along with Emma Watson and Daniel Bruhl, Colonia co-stars Michael Nyqvist, Richenda Carey, Vicky Krieps, Jeanne Werner, Julian Ovenden, Martin Wuttke, and Stefan Merki. The movie premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival Tuesday and will hit German theaters on Jan. 21, 2016. A U.S. release date has not yet been announced.
About Real “Colonia Dignidad”
American cult expert Rick Alan Ross, described this Colonia Dignidad cult when he was interviewed with Marc Clair on "Lions of Liberty" Podcast:
There was a group in Chile called Colonial Dignidad. That was led by a former Nazi who left Germany and created a fifty-five- square-mile compound at the foot of the Andes. His name was Paul Schaefer. He died not long ago in 2010. He created his own world, it was a compound with his own prison. And he drugged the members of the group in order to have greater influence over them, and to essentially make them submissive. And he was a pedophile who molested the children in the group. It was a horrible group and the Chilean government eventually closed it down in the 1990s. But when the dictator Pinochet was running Chile, he actually cooperated with Paul Schaefer, and Schaefer used his compound to torture and hold political prisoners for the Pinochet Regime. And when the government after Pinochet raided the compound, they found the largest cash or weapons ever to be discovered in private hands in the history of Chile. And then Paul Schaefer was sentenced to prison, he died in prison in 2010. I think very few people in the United States know that this South American cult existed. It was like a conserved city, self-efficient, and it was a quite large group involving hundreds and hundreds of people.
