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- 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.
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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.
Learn the true life events behind the Galapagos Affair movie, a tale of mystery & intrigue behind the disappearance of the famous Galapagos Baroness.
- The Galapagos Islands
- Friedrich Ritter and Dore Strauch
- The Wittmers
- The Baroness
- An Unhealthy Mix
- Deterioration
- The Baroness Goes Missing
- A Fishy Story
- Lorenz Disappears
- The Strange Death of Dr. Ritter
The Galapagos Islands are named after a sort of saddle which is said to resemble the shells of the giant tortoises that make the islands their home. They were discovered accidentally in 1535 and then promptly ignored until the seventeenth century when they became a regular stopping point for whaling ships looking to take on provisions. The governme...
In 1929, German doctor Friedrich Ritter abandoned his practice and moved to the Islands, feeling he needed a new start in a faraway place. He brought with him one of his patients, Dore Strauch: both of them left spouses behind. They set up a homestead on Floreana Island and worked very hard there, moving heavy lava rocks, planting fruits and vegeta...
Heinz Wittmer arrived in 1931 with his teenage son and pregnant wife Margret. Unlike the others, they remained, setting up their own homestead with some help from Dr. Ritter. Once they were established, the two German families apparently had little contact with one another, which seems to be how they liked it. Like Dr. Ritter and Ms. Strauch, the W...
The next arrival would change everything. Not long after the Wittmers came, a party of four arrived on Floreana, led by "Baroness" Eloise Wehrborn de Wagner-Bosquet, an attractive young Austrian. She was accompanied by her two German lovers, Robert Philippson and Rudolf Lorenz, as well as an Ecuadorian, Manuel Valdivieso, presumably hired to do all...
The Baroness was a true character. She made up elaborate, grand stories to tell the visiting yacht captains, went about wearing a pistol and a whip, seduced the Governor of Galapagos and anointed herself "Queen" of Floreana. After her arrival, yachts went out of their way to visit Floreana; everyone sailing the Pacific wanted to be able to boast of...
The situation quickly deteriorated. Lorenz apparently fell out of favor, and Philippson started beating him. Lorenz started spending a lot of time with the Wittmers until the Baroness would come and get him. There was a prolonged drought, and Ritter and Strauch began to quarrel. Ritter and the Wittmers became angry when they began to suspect that t...
Then on March 27, 1934, the Baroness and Philippson disappeared. According to Margret Wittmer, the Baroness appeared at the Wittmer home and said that some friends had arrived on a yacht and were taking them to Tahiti. She said she left everything they weren't taking with them to Lorenz. The Baroness and Philippson departed that very day and were n...
There are problems with the Wittmers' story, however. No one else remembers any ship coming in that week, and the Baroness and Wittmer never turned up in Tahiti. Additionally, they left behind almost all of their things, including ( according to Dore Strauch) items that the Baroness would have wanted on even a very short journey. Strauch and Ritter...
Lorenz was in a hurry to get out of Galapagos and he convinced a Norwegian fisherman named Nuggerud to take him first to Santa Cruz Island and from there to San Cristobal Island, where he could catch a ferry to Guayaquil. They made it to Santa Cruz but disappeared between Santa Cruz and San Cristóbal. Months later, the mummified, desiccated bodies ...
The strangeness did not end there. In November of the same year, Dr. Ritter died, apparently of food poisoning due to eating some poorly-preserved chicken. This is odd firstly because Ritter was a vegetarian (although apparently not a strict one). Also, he was a veteran of island living, and certainly capable of telling when some preserved chicken ...
Apr 3, 2014 · “The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden” is a darkly amusing historical documentary about the fruitless search for paradise on Earth by vainglorious, world-weary dreamers who set...
- Stephen Holden
- Daniel Geller, Dayna Goldfine
Oct 9, 2013 · Featuring rare archival footage not seen in 70 years, and with voice performances by Cate Blanchett and Diane Kruger, The Galapagos Affair weaves “a human history” with modern-day interviews, spinning an adventurous tale of idealistic dreams gone awry.
Apr 4, 2014 · The new documentary film "The Galapagos Affair" tells the story of European settlers who move to a remote island looking for paradise, but become embroiled in an murder mystery when two of the islanders disappear.
The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden: Directed by Daniel Geller, Dayna Goldfine. With Cate Blanchett, Sebastian Koch, Thomas Kretschmann, Diane Kruger. About a series of unsolved disappearances on the Galapagos Island of Floreana in the 1930s.
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