SAT FEB 17, 2024 10:00 PM THE GALAPAGOS AFFAIR: SATAN CAME TO EDEN $8.00 (member) ; $13.00 (general admission) Los Feliz 3 | ‘Laura Karpman: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’ Tickets are no longer on sale for this event.
ABOUT THE FILM: Darwin meets Hitchcock in this true-crime tale of paradise found and lost. THE GALAPAGOS AFFAIR: SATAN CAME TO EDEN is a fascinating documentary portrait of a 1930s murder mystery as strange and alluring as the famous archipelago itself. Fleeing conventional society, a Berlin doctor and his mistress start a new life on uninhabited Floreana Island. But after the international press sensationalizes the exploits of the Galapagos’ “Adam and Eve”, others flock there—including a self-styled Swiss Family Robinson and a gun-toting Viennese Baroness and her two lovers. Clashing personalities are aggravated by the island community’s lusty free-love ethos, and when some of the islanders disappear, suspicions of murder hang in the air leaving an unsolved mystery which remains the subject of local lore today. FORMAT: DCP DISTRIBUTOR: Zeitgeist Films COUNTRY: USA