A Sinister Sect: Colonia Dignidad Blick in den Abgrund (Season 1, Episode 3)
TV Episode | 53 min | Documentary, History

A Sinister Sect: Colonia Dignidad

Blick in den Abgrund (Season 1, Episode 3)

TV Episode | 53 min | Documentary, History

There is great relief among German sect members about the military coup in September 1973. Paul Schäfer is serving the new rulers: From now on, secret police chief Manuel Contreras and dictator Augusto Pinochet come and go from the colony.

Directors

Annette Baumeister | Wilfried Huismann | Heike Bittner (co-director) | Kai Christiansen (co-director)

Writers

Annette Baumeister | Wilfried Huismann | Cristián Leighton (idea)

Composer

Hans-Peter Ströer

Cinematographers

Michael Dreyer | Erik Schimschar | Johannes Straub

Editors

Richard Krause | Ulrich Stein

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Edit Released

Updated Mar 10, 2020

Release date

Mar 10, 2020 (Germany)

Awards

Series awards

2 wins

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20 cast members

Name	Known for
Jonas Baeck Self - Narrator (voice) Self - Narrator (voice) See fewer	Nymphomaniac: Vol. I (2013)
Norbert Blüm Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Steiners Sketchparade - Lachen ist die beste Medizin (1997)
Edeltraud Bohnau Self - Interviewee Self - Interviewee See fewer	Colonia Dignidad: A Sinister Sect (2021)
Adrian Bravo Self - Interviewee Self - Interviewee See fewer	A Sinister Sect: Colonia Dignidad (2020)
Adriana Bórquez Self - Interviewee Self - Interviewee See fewer	Colonia Dignidad: A Sinister Sect (2021)
Hartmut Hopp Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer
Wolfgang Kneese Self - Interviewee Self - Interviewee See fewer	Colonia Dignidad: A Sinister Sect (2021)
Georg Laube Self - Interviewee Self - Interviewee See fewer	Songs of Repression (2020)
Willi Malessa Self - Interviewee Self - Interviewee See fewer	Colonia Dignidad: A Sinister Sect (2021)
Martin Matthusen Self - Interviewee Self - Interviewee See fewer	A Sinister Sect: Colonia Dignidad (2020)
Robert Matthusen Self - Colonist Self - Colonist See fewer	Colonia Dignidad: A Sinister Sect (2021)
Gerhard Mertins Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Soldiers (1984)
Esther Müller Self - Interviewee Self - Interviewee See fewer	Colonia Dignidad: A Sinister Sect (2021)
Luis Peebles Self - Interviewee Self - Interviewee See fewer	A Sinister Sect: Colonia Dignidad (2020)
Günter Schaffrik Self - Interviewee Self - Interviewee See fewer	Colonia Dignidad: A Sinister Sect (2021)
Anne Schnellenkamp Self - Interviewee Self - Interviewee See fewer	Colonia Dignidad: A Sinister Sect (2021)
Kurt Schnellenkamp Self - Interviewee Self - Interviewee See fewer	Colonia Dignidad: A Sinister Sect (2021)
Paul Schäfer Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Contacto (1991)
Erika Tymm Self - Colonist Self - Colonist See fewer	Die Sekte der Folterer (2016)
Karl Van Den Berg Self - Interviewee (as Karl van den Berg) Self - Interviewee (as Karl van den Berg) See fewer	Colonia Dignidad: A Sinister Sect (2021)