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First Look At #EmmaWatson In Colonia

America isn’t the only country for which September 11 has painful significance. On September 11, 1973 a coup was launched against the regime of Salvador Allende by General Pinochet, plunging the country into violent upheaval that’s being depicted in Emma Watson ’s new film, Colonia . Mikael Nyqvist , The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo ’s Mikael Blomkvist , has signed on and the two of them can be seen in action in this first-look still from the film. Colonia follows Costa-Gavras’s Missing (1982) in charting the brutal aftermath of the Pinochet-led coup. 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 Nyqvist’s lay preacher Paul Schäfer. There she joins the cult to find Daniel. Judging by this picture, things don’t run exactly smoothly for her at Schäfer’s ...