Surviving a Sinister Sect: Chile’s Colonia Dignidad
Video duration 25 minutes 00 seconds
A survivor of Chile’s Colonia Dignidad teams up with a journalist and a lawyer in a 20-year struggle to find justice and freedom.
In 2003, Franz Baar escaped Colonia Dignidad, a German cult-like sect in Chile, hoping for freedom.
After surviving decades of torture and abuse, he joined forces with a journalist and a lawyer to expose the cult and its cult-like leader. Since then, the three have been side by side.
But Franz and his wife struggle to reintegrate into society. Reluctantly, they return to a house on the former colony’s land, where they are soon exiled. In an act of desperation, Franz does the unthinkable which leads to his imprisonment.
Yet freedom still beckons with a phone call from Chile’s beautiful but isolated Eleventh Region.
Surviving a Sinister Sect is a movie directed by Rafa Valdeavellano.