A & E turns a cult documentary with Esther Sedlaczek

Pay TV channel A & E began shooting a new documentary in San Francisco, which is expected to air in November – and most importantly, it surprised staff: "For" Total Control – Under the spell of the soul-catcher "is to know Esther Sedlaczek as a journalist in front of the camera in action.Normally, Sedlaczek is known as a sports presenter for Sky

.In documentary A & E, she will explore the question of how religious zeal, spiritual fanaticism and ideological politics and populism can captivate and manipulate people.The history of suffering of former cult members, survivors and victims of ideologies Radicals is told and it also features international experts in the field of mass psychology and sect research

At the center of the documentary, whose author and producer Emanuel Rotstein, production manager of A & E and the sister station History, is the story of Ron Jones, who led the third wave experiment on fascism with students in 1967 and demonstrated how much Appealing charismatic leaders and marginalizing ideologies can be powerful. The social experiment took on threatening forms, so Jones broke up. Later, he provided material for the world-famous Morton Rhue novel "The Wave" and several movies and plays. Last week, Rotstein met Ron Jones and his former student on the site of the original experiment, the Cubberley Community Center today in Palo Alto. Rotstein also spoke with social psychologist dr. Philip Zimbardo, whose experience at Stanford Jail in 1971 was arrested shortly after the start, as the subjects were in danger of death. First aid expert Rick Alan Ross appeared before the camera for A & E in the United States last week.

Esther Sedlaczek will be touring for documentary in the German-speaking region and next week excluded sectarians, radical ideologies and totalitarian systems. meet more experts. A wide range of topics is planned, ranging from spiritual fanaticism to totalitarian systems to ideological politics. Sedlaczek: "It's a whole new challenge for me, discovering the fates and psychology of someone behind it all is a daunting task, and I'm really looking forward to learning what people are capable and how human beings are extreme

Emanuel Rotstein: "With" Total Control – Under the spell of the soul sensor ", we show how the patterns of oppression, manipulation, disruption Abuse of power and fanaticism are similar in different destructive groups or radical systems Experts as well as dropouts and victims who tell us their personal stories for the first time have managed to win one of the most popular German TV, Esther Sedlaczek, as a reporter for our project, after many years of sports coverage I look forward to new journalistic ways h much about cooperation. "

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