Film Series To Feature Documentary, Thriller

A spy thriller that was the last film completed by the late actor Philip Seymour Hoffman and a documentary about a murder mystery in the Galapagos Islands will feature at the Weekend Film Series on August 17, 2014.

A Most Wanted Man stars Hoffman as the head of a covert German spy unit in Hamburg where the arrival of a half-Chechen, half-Russian, brutally tortured immigrant in the city’s Islamic community arouses suspicions.

Directed by Anton Corbijn, the film had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January. It also stars Willem Dafoe, Rachel McAdams, and Robin Wright.

Official ‘A Most Wanted Man’ trailer:

The film will screen in the Tradewinds Auditorium of the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute at 5.15pm on August 17.

At 3.00pm of the same day, Darwin meets Hitchcock in the true-crime tale of paradise found and lost, titled The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came To Eden.

This fascinating documentary portrait of a 1930s murder mystery is 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.

Official ‘The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came To Eden’ trailer:

But after the international press sensationalises 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.

Tickets for both films are on sale now at the Oceans Gift Shop, BUEI, or by calling 294-0204.

The ‘Weekend Film Series’, sponsored by Gosling’s, is a joint production of Bermuda Documentary Film Festival director Duncan Hall and the BUEI.

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