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Colonia Dignidad

Colonia Dignidad (2020) - Where to Watch

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70

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Here are a few key details about the ARTE series. Originally premiering March 10th, 2020, "Colonia Dignidad" stars Jonas Baeck, Edeltraud Bohnau, Willi Malessa, Wolfgang Kneese. The show spans 1 season(s) and currently holds a 70/100 rating on TMDb, which comes from reviews from 2 community users.

Want to know what the series covers? Here’s the plot: "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 Using unpublished archive material and contemporary witness statements, this 4-part documentary miniseries traces the complex, 50-year history of perpetrators, victims,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."