Dayna Goldfine & Daniel Geller, The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden

Proof that reality trumps fiction any day is the enduring 80-odd year mystery that Dayna Goldfine and Daniel Geller document in their remarkable The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden. When Nazi-era Germans sought solitude and earthly paradise on a rocky island off Ecuador, tempers popped when three families proved to be two too many. Murderous disappearances and death followed. Using archival movies and the voices of Cate Blanchett, Diane Kruger and Sebastian Koch, the filmmakers recount a story so bizarre it had to be true.

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