Emma Watson will star opposite Rush’s Daniel Brühl in Colonia, a political thriller set against the backdrop of the Chilean military coup of 1973, reports Variety.
The pair will play Lena and Daniel, a young couple who become wrapped up in the political turmoil surrounding the US-backed coup. Florian Gallenberger, the German director whose highly praised period drama John Rabe won four Lolas at the German film awards in 2009, will take charge of the cameras and write the screenplay with Torsten Wenzel.
Colonia will be one of Watson’s first starring roles since the Harry Potter films, the English actor having largely chosen to take supporting parts since the fantasy saga ended in 2011. She will also take the lead in Alejandro Amenábar’s upcoming thriller Regression, opposite Ethan Hawke.
The synopsis for Gallenberger’s film sees Lena (Watson) forced to join a cult in the Colonia Dignidad area of southern Chile where she believes her partner Daniel (Brühl) has been taken by the secret police. The “Colonia” or colony presents itself as a charitable mission run by lay preacher Paul Schäfer, according to Variety, but in reality hides darker secrets. The story is said to be based on true life events.
Gallenberger is expected to shoot in Luxembourg, Munich, Berlin and South America until the end of the year. It is not yet clear whether the project will mark the film-maker’s feature-length English-language debut following two earlier films in German (John Rabe) and Bengali (2004’s Shadows of Time).
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