The Galapagos Affair (2013)

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

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.

mysteriouseerieslow-burnatmospherichistoricalunsettlingreflectiveintriguing

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 Skarsgård. 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)

Trailer

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