'THE GALAPAGOS AFFAIR'
A TRUE STORY THAT KEEPS MYSTIFYING INVESTIGATORS
Your last period set project this week arrives from Red Joan producer Ivan Mactaggart who is joining with scribe William Boyd on adapting
John Treherne's book THE GALAPAGOS AFFAIR into a movie. Set in the late 1920s and based on a true story, the storu revolves around German doctor Friedrich Ritter and his patient, Dore Strauch, as they leave their spouses to pursue a utopian dream on the deserted Galapagos island of Floreana.
Their peace and solitude is disrupted by the arrival of the glamorous ‘Baroness’ Eloise Wagner de Bosquet and her two young lovers. Disturbed by the Baroness, Friedrich and Dore’s island paradise gradually descends in a spiral of jealousy, resentment, violence and eventually murder.
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| There was a 2013 documentary based on the case |
Fascinating true story on a fascinating tropical island! It reminds somehow of the unsolved mysteries of the Bermuda Triangle.
ReplyDeleteThe movie is, no doubt, going to be a treat.
Hope they do an interesting casting.
DeleteA Baroness and her two young lovers? Oh, that can't be good.
ReplyDeleteI hope the lovers are bisex, imagine the fun that would cause!
DeleteSounds good! Merry Christmas to you and all readers of your blog:)
ReplyDeleteThank you, festive greetings to all our readers in Poland (which is next to Russia, Ukraine and Serbia, our top Slavic source of visitors) :)
DeleteThis is a true story?? Oh my!! I’m off to google this right now. There’s nothing more horrifying than real life sometimes.
ReplyDeleteThey do say that life writes the best of dramas :)
DeleteSounds like an old time soap opera. Let's hope the young lovers are a treat for the eyes in the film :)
ReplyDeleteThat is what I'm praying for every morning!
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