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The Galapagos Affair (2013)

The Galapagos Affair poster
Original title
The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden
Directed by
Daniel Geller, Dayna Goldfine
Genre
documentary film
Country
United States
Runtime
2h
Rating
6.5 of 10 from 40 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

This documentary examines the strange disappearances of European settlers on a remote Galapagos island in the 1930s. It uses archival footage and voice actors to reconstruct the tensions and conflicts among the expatriate community.

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What happens

The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden is a 2013 feature-length documentary directed by Daniel Geller and Dayna Goldfine. It is about a series of unsolved disappearances on the Galapagos island of Floreana in the 1930s among the largely European expatriate residents at the time. The voice cast includes Cate Blanchett, Sebastian Koch, Thomas Kretschmann, Diane Kruger, Connie Nielsen, Josh Radnor and Gustaf SkarsgÄrd. It features the 1934 silent film The Empress of Floreana in its entirety, but the four-minute short is split into halves. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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