The Galapagos Affair
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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"In 1929, Friedrich Ritter and Dore Strauch arrived in Guayaquil from Berlin to settle on Floreana, and sent letters back that were widely reported in the press, encouraging others to follow. In 1932 Heinz and Margret Wittmer arrived with their son Harry, and shortly afterwards their son Rolf was born there, the first citizen of the island known to have been born in the Galápagos. Later in 1932, the self-described "Baroness" von Wagner Bosquet arrived with companions, but a series of strange disappearances and deaths (including possible murders) and the departure of Strauch left the Wittmers as the sole remaining inhabitants of the group who had settled there. They set up a hotel which is still managed by their descendants, and Mrs. Wittmer wrote an account of her experiences in her book Floreana: A Woman's Pilgrimage to the Galápagos. A documentary film recounting these events, The Galapagos Affair, was released in 2013."--Sholem Stein |
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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.
Cast (voices)
- Cate Blanchett as Dore Strauch
- Sebastian Koch as Heinz Wittmer
- Thomas Kretschmann as Friedrich Ritter
- Diane Kruger as Margret Wittmer
- Connie Nielsen as Baroness Von Wagner
- Josh Radnor as John Garth
- Gustaf Skarsgård as Rolf Blomberg
