Throwing aside the idea of the damsel in distress, Emma Watson takes matters into her own hands when Daniel Brühl is snatched from her. She’s been proactive when it comes to the first trailer for new drama Colonia, too. While the video from her Facebook page isn't working for us at the moment, take a look via YouTube below.
Colonia follows Costa-Gavras’s Missing (1982) in charting the brutal aftermath of the Pinochet-led coup in Chile in 1973. That film had Jack Lemmon trying to get to the bottom of his son’s disappearance; this one sees Emma Watson’s Lena doing likewise when her partner, Daniel (Daniel Brühl) is abducted by the secret police. Lena tracks him down to Colonia Dignidad, an anti-communist sect run by Michael Nyqvist’s lay preacher Paul Schäfer. There she joins the cult to find Daniel. Of course, it’s not going to be that easy…
German director Florian Gallenberger put the fact-based film together based on his own script, and shot in locations in South America, Germany and Luxembourg. It premiered at the Toronto Film Festival and has a German release date set for January, but there’s no indication of a UK slot yet.