The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came To Eden - 2013 - 6/10
In 1929, Friedrich Ritter and Dore Strauch abandon Berlin for remote islands, to escape civilization.
Back to the earth, man versus nature, in vogue at the time, especially in Germany.
A year on, articles were published about their Eden and paradise existence, and that drew newcomers.
Documentary of the conflicts, resentments, and eventual disappearance of individuals.
Filmmakers work diligently to make this footnote seem compelling, though it is more a curio, despite the heady aroma of tropical sexual abandon.
Amazing period footage (how did that survive, who kept them?), including a silent pirate movie!
Interviewees include modern day inhabitants who speculate as well as you or I.
Of note to the decadents.
After the sinister disappearance, neighbors argued that the individual never - ever - would have left without taking their favorite book. The book that accompanied them everywhere, was their good luck charm, was still in their cabin.
