Colonia (released in the United Kingdom as The Colony) is a 2015 historical thriller film directed by Florian Gallenberger, produced by Benjamin Herrmann, written by Torsten Wenzel and Gallenberger, and starring Emma Watson, Daniel Brühl, and Michael Nyqvist. The film is set against the backdrop of the 1973 Chilean military coup and the real “Colonia Dignidad”, a notorious cult in the South of Chile, led by German lay preacher Paul Schäfer. Schäfer was a follower and teacher of “The Message” of William Branham. The film is an international co-production of companies in the United Kingdom, Germany, Luxembourg, and France.
