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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.
Erlebnisbericht deutscher Siedler (1959) (English title: Floreana: A Woman's Pilgrimage to the Galapagos). She returned to Germany in 1960 to present her book. [1] Margret's book attracted more German tourists to Floreana Island. She built several bungalows to host different tourists and scientists that visited Floreana. [2]
A documentary film recounting these events, The Galapagos Affair, was released in 2013. [17] A fictionalized film by director Ron Howard starring Jude Law, Sydney Sweeney, and Ana de Armas premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in 2024. [18]
The film is notable for being featured in The Galapagos Affair, and helping publicize Floreana and the Galápagos back in the early 1930s. [3] Cast
In January 1855, DeBrissot was on his way to the Galapagos when he was convinced by Henry Crabb, Thomas F. Fisher, and Collier Clarence Hornsby to stay in Nicaragua. [128] DeBrissot was one of the fifty-eight filibusters that went with Walker on his expedition to Nicaragua on the Vesta that landed in El Realejo on June 16, 1855. [129]
The Galapagos book was produced shortly after his visit to the islands to study the behaviour of Halobates. [6] Among his ideas was the "Trafalgar Effect", that groups of Halobates could relay indication of a predator so that even the most distant individuals could take evasive action well before the predator became visible to them. [7]
Otto-Bernstein is currently in pre-production on Heisenberg (directed by Uli Edel) [14] and The Galapagos Affair (directed by Marc Rothemund). [15] In addition, she serves as chair of Columbia University School of the Arts Dean's Council. She was honored by her alma mater with the Columbia University Alumni Medal of Achievement in 2009. [16]
Young Johanna dreamed of reaching the Galapagos and learning more about the father she never knew. In 1961 her family made the four-day voyage from Guayaquil to Santa Cruz in the Galapagos. There Johanna fell in love with her larger-than-life uncles and the pioneering lifestyle but, aged thirteen, she reluctantly returned to school in Quito.