Styx
Screenplay: Wolfgang Fischer
Cast: Susanne Wolff, Gedion Wekesa Oduor, Alexander Beyer, Inga Birkenfeld
Cinematography: Benedict Neuenfels
Producers: Marcos Kantis, Martin Lehwald, Michal Pokorny
Music: Dirk von Lowtzow
Production: Schiwago Film GmbH, Amour Fou Vienna
Sales Agent: Beta Cinema
Rike - 40, a doctor from Europe - embodies a typical Western model of happiness and success. She is educated, confident, determined and committed. We see Rike's everyday life, as an emergency doctor, before she fulfils a long-held dream and sails out to sea alone in her sailing boat. Her goal: Ascension Island in the Atlantic Ocean. But her dream holiday is quickly broken off on the high seas, when, after a storm, she finds herself near a stricken fishing boat. Around a hundred people are about to drown. Rike follows maritime law and radios for help. As her request is going nowhere, she is forced to make a momentous decision.