Release Date

10 Mar, 2020

Runtime

00:52: (HH:MM)

Total Episode/Season

4/1

Synopsis

The self-proclaimed preacher Paul Schäfer gathered people around him in post-war Germany. The sect founded a youth home near Cologne. But in 1961 Schäfer had to flee. Many followers followed him to Chile. 350 kilometers south of Santiago, far away from civilization, they begin building the Colonia Dignidad. A supposed model village with workshops, agriculture, livestock breeding was being created. But paradise became hell because slave labor, violence and sexual abuse soon became a part of everyday life. After the military coup in 1973, Schäfer served the new rulers: secret police chief Manuel Contreras and dictator Augusto Pinochet now came and went in the colony, while the opponents of the terrorist regime are tortured and killed in the cellars. Using unpublished archive material and contemporary witness statements, this 4-part documentary miniseries traces the complex, 50-year history of perpetrators, victims, supporters and opponents of this place that became the epitome of evil.

Original Title

Colonia Dignidad - Aus dem Innern einer deutschen Sekte

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Season 1

10 Mar, 2020

Actors

Jonas Baeck

Edeltraud Bohnau

Willi Malessa

Wolfgang Kneese

Erika Tymm

Günter Schaffrik

Karl Van Den Berg

Robert Matthusen

Esther Müller

Martin Matthusen

Anne Schnellenkamp

Brigitte Baak

Kurt Schnellenkamp

Jürgen Szurgelies

Georg Laube

Luis Peebles

Salo Luna

Roberto Thieme

Alfred Gerlach

Luis Henríquez

Adriana Bórquez

Crew