Darwin meets Hitchcock in the feature-length documentary SATAN CAME TO EDEN, a gripping tale of idealistic dreams gone awry set in the brutal yet alluring landscape of the Galapagos Islands in the 1930s.

When Berlin physician Friedrich Ritter left Germany in 1929 with his lover Dore Strauch to make a life on the deserted Galapagos Island of Floreana, he envisioned a paradise of solitude in which he would be able to write great philosophical tracts while carving out a rudimentary existence based on Nietzsche’s doctrine of the Superman. What Ritter and Strauch didn’t count on was being discovered by the international press, who rapidly trumpeted their exploits as “The Adam and Eve of the Galapagos.”

With this fame others soon flocked to the shores of Floreana, each seeking to realize his or her own personal ambitions: Heinz Wittmer, his pregnant wife and teenage son who left Cologne in 1931 determined to become “The Swiss Family Robinsons of the Galapagos”; and shortly thereafter, the Austrian Baroness Eloise von Wagner Bosquet who, declaring herself the “Empress of Floreana,” arrived toting a pearl-handled revolver, a harem of young men and a grandiose set of plans for opening a luxury hotel catering to billionaire yachtsmen.

SATAN CAME TO EDEN is the tale of what happened when these disparate dreams collided on a harsh island barely capable of supporting human life: a study of mysterious disappearances and likely murder for some, but also of survival and triumph for others. Set in the archipelago where Darwin made his revolutionary discoveries about species adaptability, SATAN CAME TO EDEN explores the realities of building a civilized existence absent any social structures and norms, and the resulting unique and often troubled history of human interaction on the Galapagos Islands.

As in the critically acclaimed BALLETS RUSSES, SATAN CAME TO EDEN features newly-discovered archival motion picture footage of its characters and their Galapagos surroundings – footage shot during the scientific expeditions of millionaire philanthropist Captain Allan Hancock and not seen in over 70 years. This together with hundreds of archival photographs, letters, manuscripts, articles and other first-person accounts, as well as stunning present-day HD footage of the remarkable flora and fauna of Floreana itself, will weave together a real-life Darwinian story of survival of the fittest, a story both macabre and profound.