A Place Called Dignity is the latest drama to take on the abusive horrors that happened behind the gated, religious doors of the Colony of Dignity in Chile, which has also in recent years been the focus of Emma Watson-starrer The Colony, animation The Wolf House, documentary Songs Of Repression and Netflix documentary series A Sinister Sect: Colonia Dignida.
Matias Rojas Valencia uses an outsider, 12-year-old Pablo, as our surrogate into this German community whose outward face of singing and industriousness hid a decades long rule by abuser its leader Paul Schäfer (Hanns Zischler), who also had a sideline in torture and disappearances for the Pinochet regime.
For little Pablo and his mother, the chance to become the first scholarship child in the community seems like a real opportunity as Schäfer - referred to in the community as "permanent uncle" - says he'll be given an...
Matias Rojas Valencia uses an outsider, 12-year-old Pablo, as our surrogate into this German community whose outward face of singing and industriousness hid a decades long rule by abuser its leader Paul Schäfer (Hanns Zischler), who also had a sideline in torture and disappearances for the Pinochet regime.
For little Pablo and his mother, the chance to become the first scholarship child in the community seems like a real opportunity as Schäfer - referred to in the community as "permanent uncle" - says he'll be given an...
- 11/23/2021
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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