2016 · drama · history · political
Colonia
Directed by Florian Gallenberger1h 46m2016
A young woman's desperate search for her abducted boyfriend draws her into the infamous Colonia Dignidad, a sect nobody ever escaped from.
Our read: Colonia (2016) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded drama · history · political entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured drama / history, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- intense
- twisty
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