Styx (film)
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| Directed by | Wolfgang Fischer |
| Written by | Wolfgang Fischer Ika Künzel |
| Produced by | Marcos Kantis Martin Lehwald Michal Pokorny Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu Bady Minck |
| Starring | Susanne Wolff Gedion Oduor Wekesa |
| Cinematography | Benedict Neuenfels |
| Edited by | Monika Willi |
| Music by | Dirk von Lowtzow |
Production company | Schiwago Film |
| Distributed by | Beta Cinema |
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Running time | 95 minutes |
| Countries | Germany Austria |
| Languages | English German |
Styx is a 2018 German-Austrian drama film directed by Wolfgang Fischer. The film features Susanne Wolff as Rike, an emergency doctor who is sailing her yacht solo off North Africa when she comes across a boat full of asylum seekers in distress after a storm has damaged their vessel. Styx was screened in the Panorama section at the 68th Berlin International Film Festival. It was highly praised by critics and won many awards, including at the German Directors Guild Awards, the German Film Awards, Boulder International Film Festival, and the FIPRESCI Prize at the Ljubljana International Film Festival, and was nominated for many others.