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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