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 Using unpublished archive material and contemporary witness statements, this 4-part documentary miniseries traces the complex, 50-year history of perpetrators, victims,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.
Title | Air Date | Duration | ||
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Season 1 | Episode 1 | The Mission | 2021-10-01 | 42 min |
Season 1 | Episode 2 | The Promised Land | 2021-10-01 | 54 min |
Season 1 | Episode 3 | The Specter of Communism | 2021-10-01 | 46 min |
Season 1 | Episode 4 | A Pact with the Devil | 2021-10-01 | 56 min |
Season 1 | Episode 5 | The Untouchable | 2021-10-01 | 52 min |
Season 1 | Episode 6 | The Fall | 2021-10-01 | 66 min |
Editing | Marion Pohlschmidt | Editor |
Production | Holger Koop | Production Manager |
Crew | Ulrike Becker | Commissioning Editor |
Production | Daniela Bunster | Associate Producer |
Editing | Céline Zimmerer | Archival Footage Research |
Crew | Christiane Hinz | Commissioning Editor |
Editing | Richard Krause | Editor |
Crew | Barbara Schmitz | Commissioning Editor |
Sound | Rainer Hirsch | Sound |
Production | Jorge Bogalho | Production Manager |
Editing | Danjela Brückner | Archival Footage Research |
Editing | Manuela Piña Lawner | Archival Footage Research |
Sound | Zora Butzke | Sound |
Editing | Ulrich Stein | Editor |
Editing | Claudia Hentze | Archival Footage Research |
Production | Melanie Braun | Production Manager |
Production | Gunnar Dedio | Executive Producer |
Sound | Hans Bauer | Sound |
Directing | Annette Baumeister | Director |
Writing | Annette Baumeister | Writer |
Directing | Kai Christiansen | Director |
Directing | Wilfried Huismann | Director |
Writing | Wilfried Huismann | Writer |
Directing | Heike Bittner | Director |
Writing | Cristian Leighton | Idea |
Production | Birgit Rasch | Supervising Producer |
Sound | Hans-Peter Ströer | Original Music Composer |
Sound | Tobias Fritzsch | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
Camera | Michael Dreyer | Director of Photography |
Camera | Erik Schimschar | Director of Photography |
Camera | Johannes Straub | Director of Photography |