COLONIA Teaser Trailer Watch the first COLONIA teaser trailer! The film, written and directed by Florian Gallenberger, stars Emma Watson, Daniel Brühl, and Michael Nyqvist. COLONIA will be released in theaters on a date TBD. Lena and Daniel, a young couple become entangled in the Chilean military coup of 1973. Daniel is abducted by Pinochet’s secret police and Lena tracks him to a sealed off area in the South of the country, called Colonia Dignidad. The Colonia presents itself as a charitable mission run by lay preacher Paul Schäfer but, in fact, is a place nobody ever escaped from. Lena decides to join the cult in order to find Daniel. Based on true events.