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Emma Watson and Daniel Brühl will star opposite each other in director Florian Gallenberger's Chilean thriller, Colonia, EW has confirmed. According to The Wrap, Brühl and Watson will play Daniel and Lena, a couple living in the heyday of the military coup in Chile in 1973. The couple become separated when Daniel is abducted by Pinochet's secret police, and Lena is determined to track Daniel down by infiltrating a cult in the sealed off area of Chile known as Colonia Dignidad, where Daniel is being held. Brühl previously worked with Gallenberger on City of War: The Story of John Rabe and Honolulu.

According to Deadline, Emma Watson has signed on to star alongside Rush’s Daniel Bruhl in Colonia, a period war drama set against the Chilean military coup of 1973.

Directed by Florian Gallenberger — the award-winning filmmaker behinds projects such as 2009’s John Rabe — the film will orbit around Watson’s Lena, wife of Bruhl’s Daniel, who sets about rescuing her husband after he is abducted by the secret police of one Augusto Pinochet. To do so, she must join the ranks of a nefarious cult within the sealed-off area of Colonia Dignidad.

The tale, which itself was inspired by true events, was co-written by Gallenberger and Torsten Wenzel and is due to enter production within the coming weeks. In terms of filming locations, the globe-trotting production team will take Colonia to South America, Berlin, Munich and Luxembourg and it’s expected that filming will wrap before the year’s end.

"Harry Potter" and "Perks of Being a Wallflower" star Emma Watson made waves last week for her impassioned United Nations speech on the topic of feminism. Watson's “HeForShe" campaign made waves in the social sphere and continues to snowball with support, but it appears the endeavor won't disable the star from going about her day job. Deadline reports that Watson is on board a Chilean docudrama, fresh territory for the worldly 24-year-old actress. Watson will costar alongside "Inglorious Basterds" actor Daniel Bruhl in "Colonia," from German director Florian Gallenberger. The film revolves around a young couple who sink deeper and deeper into the 1973 Chilean military coup. When Bruhl's character is abducted by Pinochet’s secret police, Watson tracks him to a sealed-off area in Southern Chile called "Colonia Dignidad." According to Deadline's announcement, "The Colonia presents itself as a charitable mission run by a lay preacher, but is in fact...

German helmer Florian Gallenberger won an Oscar for his 2000 short film Quiero Ser (I Want To Be…) and followed that up with such features as Honolulu and City Of War: The Story Of John Rabe. Both those films starred Daniel Bruhl with whom the director is reteaming on Colonia. Principal photography is about to begin on the thriller that has Emma Watson opposite Bruhl in a tale inspired by true events. They play a young couple who become entangled in the Chilean military coup of 1973. Daniel (Bruhl) is abducted by Pinochet’s secret police and Lena (Watson) 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 a lay preacher, but is in fact a place from which no one has ever escaped. In order to find her beloved, Lena decides to join the cult.