Ron Howard’s 53rd directorial effort, Eden, is based on the true story of a group of European idealists who moved to a remote, uninhabited island in the South Pacific, circa 1929, in order to 1) escape encroaching fascism and 2) start a brand-new civilization dedicated to “saving humanity from itself.”

Things did not exactly go swimmingly for the experiment, as a 2013 documentary on the same subject, titled The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden, points out. The doc—directed by Daniel Geller and Dayna Goldfine—combines the real-life writings of settler Dr. Friedrich Ritter and the home movies he shot with his partner, Dore Strauch. Ritter and Strauch’s number-one goal, as a pair of German intellectuals in the 1930s, was to get away from Adolf Hitler.

“Getting away from Hitler” may have

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