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A Sinister Sect: Colonia Dignidad

★ 7.6 452 votes 2020–2020 1 season · 4 episodes Ended ARTE
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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 Using unpublished archive material and contemporary witness statements, this 4-part documentary miniseries traces the complex, 50-year history of perpetrators, victims,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.

All Seasons

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Season 12020
7.88343h 29m
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
▶1Im Paradies7.3
2152 min
▶2Lange Schatten7.9
2152 min
▶3Blick in den Abgrund7.9
2053 min
▶4Ans Licht8.3
2152 min

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Cast

Jonas Baeck Self - Narrator
Willi Malessa Self - Interviewee
Erika Tymm Self - Interviewee, Self - Colonist
Robert Matthusen Self - Interviewee, Self - Colonist
Karl Van Den Berg Self - Interviewee
Wolfgang Kneese Self - Interviewee
Edeltraud Bohnau Self - Interviewee, Self - Colonist
Günter Schaffrik Self - Interviewee
Martin Matthusen Self - Interviewee, Self - Colonist
Esther Müller Self - Interviewee

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