She is currently the face of feminism across the world, and Emma Watson is making it look like as cool as it is important.
The actress arrived in Berlin to film her new movie Colonia, wearing a pair of chic RayBan Wayfarer sunglᴀsses and a layers of grey and black knitwear over jeans.
Fresh-faced and her hair in a bedhead style, Emma smile as she made her way out of the city’s airport to hear to her H๏τel.
The production has relocated to Gemany following a shoot in Luxembourg and will next head to South America, later this year.
Co-starring Daniel Brühl the film is inspired true events that took place during the Chilean military coup of 1973.
When Daniel (Bruhl) is abducted by General Augusto Pinochet’s secret police, Lena (Watson) tracks him to a cult sanctuary called Colonia Dignidad, that under the guise of a charitable mission run by a preacher (Michael Nyqvist), tortured those prisoners sent there by the former Chilean dictator.
Lena decides to join the cult in order to find her beloved and thus uncover the secrets of Colonia.
The sealed-off community had a school, a hospital, two airstrips, a restaurant, and a power station but according to a 1977 Amnesty International dossier on political prisoners held in secret detentions camps in Chile, it was also a torture site.
‘It is alleged that experiments in torture are carried out [at] Colonia Dinidad, near the town of Parral, in Linares Province approximately 400 kilometres south of Santiago.’
The BBC reported in 2005, that former political prisoners gave evidence to say that there was ‘a warren of stone-walled tunnels under the colony, where they were taken to be tortured with electric shocks to the strains of Wagner and Mozart.’
It is clear Nyqvist’s character is based upon Paul Schäfer who was the founder and former leader of the German immigrants who lived in Colonia Dinidad.
Schäfer, a Nazi supporter and medic, fled Germany in 1961 after being accused of Sєxually abusing two boys while running another commune masked as a charitable organisation.
On May 20, 1997, he fled Chile because of further charges of child molestation of 26 children while in charge of Colonia Dinidad, and was captured eight years later in Argentina.
