(PCM) In this intriguing documentary, The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden, the lives of several people who left society for the tranquility of the Galapagos Islands and instead found contention, mysterious deaths, and drama worthy of the theater are examined and explored.
Darwin meets Hitchcock in this true-crime tale of paradise found and lost. The Galapagos Affair is a fascinating documentary portrait of a 1930s murder mystery as strange and alluring as the famous archipelago itself.
Fleeing conventional society, a Berlin doctor and his mistress start a new life on uninhabited Floreana Island. But after the international press sensationalizes the exploits of the Galapagos’ “Adam and Eve,” others flock there – including a self-styled Swiss Family Robinson and a gun-toting Viennese Baroness and her two lovers.
Clashing personalities are aggravated by the island community’s lusty free-love ethos, and when some of the islanders disappear, suspicions of murder hang in the air leaving an unsolved mystery which remains the subject of local lore today.
The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden features the voices of Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine, The Lord of the Rings), Sebastian Koch (The Lives of Others, A Good Day to Die Hard), Thomas Kretschmann (King Kong, Wanted), Diane Kruger (Inglorious Basterds, Troy), Connie Nielson (3 Days to Kill, Gladiator), Josh Radnor (How I Met Your Mother, Liberal Arts), and Gustaf Skarsgård (The Way Back, Evil).
Watch the trailer for The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden below and check out the official site here.
The documentary has a run time of 2 hours.
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