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.[2]
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Directed by | Daniel Geller Dayna Goldfine |
Written by | Daniel Geller Dayna Goldfine Celeste Schaefer Snyder |
Produced by | Daniel Geller Dayna Goldfine Celeste Schaefer Snyder |
Cinematography | Daniel Geller |
Edited by | Bill Webber |
Music by | Laura Karpman |
Production company | Geller/Goldfine Productions |
Distributed by | Zeitgeist Films |
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Running time | 120 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $247,159 (USA)[1] |
It features the 1934 silent film The Empress of Floreana in its entirety, but the four-minute short is split into halves.[3]
The film premiered at the 40th Telluride Film Festival on September 2, 2013. It was an official selection of the Hamptons International Film Festival on October 12, 2013, and Berlin International Film Festival on February 10, 2014.[4][5] It opened theatrically in the US on April 4, 2014.[2]
On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 83% based on 53 reviews, with an average rating of 6.92/10. The website's critics consensus reads: "It doesn't quite live up to its marvelously lurid premise, but The Galapagos Affair is still stranger than fiction in a very entertaining way."[6] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 69 out of 100, based on 21 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[7]
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