Inside the real story of twisted 'modern Adam and Eve': Remote island film Eden starring Sydney Sweeney and Jude Law is laden with nudity and violence - but mysterious true tale behind it is far darker He's been a playboy and a Pope, and now Jude Law is playing an eccentric German doctor: a nudist with steel teeth who was set on leaving humanity behind and starting afresh on a remote island.
The British actor, 52, is joined in Ron Howard’s new thriller by the likes of Vanessa Kirby, Sydney Sweeney and Ana de Armas, who plays a married Austrian Baroness who turns up on the archipelago with two boyfriends.
In real life, Dr Friedrich Ritter (played by Jude) and his lover Dore Strauch (Kirby) arrived on the southern, tropical island of Floreana, a former penal colony, in 1929.
Pictured right, Dr Friedrich Ritter] They were determined to live according to philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche's guide - embracing vegetarianism and physical labour - despite the unforgiving rocky, lava-encrusted environment, where fresh water was scarce.
To solve this problem, Dore came up with a brazen scheme whereby she persuaded Friedrich's wife to move in with her own husband, leaving the doctor and his younger lover free to be with one another.
