First Look at Emma in Colonia

The first still from Florian Gallenberger’s Colonia has been released. Emma Watson is seen here with Mikael Nyqvist as Paul Schäfer, a lay preacher and leader of the ‘charitable mission’ at Colonia Dignidad. Emma plays Lena, a young woman whose husband Daniel is abducted by Pinochet’s secret police during the 1973 Chilean military coup and sent to the Colonia, which is actually a cult. Lena joins the cult to rescue Daniel.

In a recent article Emma talked about the role, “This film is my first chance to develop a role from beginning to end. I carry the whole movie and it’s very different. It is both invigorating and liberating. It’s really cool.” and visiting the original site of Colonia, “The experience I will never forget. The buildings looked exactly like in the 1970s, although it is called Villa Baviera nowadays. I freaked out completely. You really wonder how such a thing could happen.”

Filming in Luxembourg has wrapped and the production now moves to Germany. The filming will finish in South America later this year, with a release date of October 2015.

posted by dook on Monday, October 27th, 2014, filed under Colonia.