On 27 October, Michael Nyqvist joined the film to star as Paul Schäfer. Kolja Brandt would be director of photography, and Hansjörg Weißbrich would be the film editor. Benjamin Herrmann would be producing the film through Majestic Filmproduktion, and Nicolas Steil would co-produce through Iris Productions. On 29 September 2014, it was announced that Emma Watson and Daniel Brühl would star as a couple in the upcoming film which is based on a real historical background, directed by Florian Gallenberger who co-wrote the script with Torsten Wenzel. Michael Nyqvist as Paul Schäfer, the leader of Colonia Dignidad.Daniel Brühl as Daniel, Lena's boyfriend, a West German activist working in Chile as a journalist who is kidnapped by General Augusto Pinochet's secret police DINA.
Emma Watson as Lena, a young flight attendant working for the German airline Lufthansa who joins the cult Colonia Dignidad to rescue her boyfriend Daniel.Staff from the embassy betray them but they exit the country by air, with incriminating photographic evidence against Colonia Dignidad. During the escape, they are discovered and Ursel is killed but Lena and Daniel escape to the West German embassy. With the help of a pregnant nurse named Ursel, Lena and Daniel attempt to escape from Colonia Dignidad. When they reunite, the couple discover the organisation is also an illegal operations centre for DINA, who also use it as a political prison, trafficking ring, and torture venue for dissidents of Pinochet. After a power outage, she later finds him he has acted mentally disabled so he would be overlooked. Lena skinny dips in a nearby pond in order to be brought over to the men's section for the same punishments so that she can find Daniel. She witnesses Doro, a fellow member, get brutally beaten and humiliated at the men's section after it is revealed that she wanted to marry another cult member. Lena joins the organisation to rescue Daniel, only to learn it is a cult that combines Baptist-style tenets, punitive agrarian lifestyles, Nazism, and aggressive anti-Communism, from which no one has ever escaped.
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The organisation presents itself as a charitable mission run by Paul Schäfer, a former Wehrmacht colonel and army medic who evaded capture and trial following World War II by disguising himself as a Lutheran pastor and lay minister, later fleeing to Chile to build the organisation. The pursuit leads her to "Colonia Dignidad", an isolated secret organisation living in a sealed-off rural farmland and enclave near the Andes mountains. When Daniel is abducted by Pinochet's secret police DINA, Lena tries to find and save him. One day, the two become entangled in a Chilean military coup at a time when supporters of deposed President Salvador Allende are getting rounded up by the military under General Augusto Pinochet. Upon arrival in Santiago, she reunites with him and they spend their days in the capital peacefully. In 1973, Lena is a strong, independent and adventurous Lufthansa stewardess and is in relationship with Daniel, a West German journalist and activist living in Chile. The film was released in Germany on 18 February 2016, in the United Kingdom on 1 July 2016, and in France on 20 July 2016. Colonia held its world premiere at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival in the Special Presentations section. Principal photography began on 2 October 2014 in Luxembourg filming also took place in Germany and Argentina. Colonia is an international co-production of companies in the UK, Germany, Luxembourg, and France. The film is set against the backdrop of the 1973 Chilean military coup and the Colonia Dignidad, a notorious cult in the South of Chile, led by German lay preacher Paul Schäfer.
Colonia (released in the UK as The Colony) is a 2015 historical romantic thriller film directed by Florian Gallenberger, produced by Benjamin Herrmann, written by Torsten Wenzel and Gallenberger, and starring Emma Watson, Daniel Brühl, and Michael Nyqvist.
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