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===In film=== *Corfu was one of the main locations featured in the 1970 film ''[[The Executioner (1970 film)|The Executioner]]'' starring [[George Peppard]] and [[Joan Collins]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tcm.com/404?ReturnTo=http%3A%2F%2Fprod.tcm.com%2Ftcmdb%2Ftitle.jsp|title=Turner Classic Movies - TCM.com|website=Turner Classic Movies}}</ref> *Corfu was one of the settings of ''[[The Burglars]]'', a 1971 film starring [[Jean-Paul Belmondo]] and [[Omar Sharif]]. *''[[The Countess of Corfu]]'' (''{{langx|el|Η Κόμησσα Της Κέρκυρας}}''), a 1972 film starring [[Rena Vlahopoulou]] and [[Alekos Alexandrakis]], was filmed in Corfu. *Much of the 1978 [[Billy Wilder]] film ''[[Fedora (1978 film)|Fedora]]'' is set in Corfu and filmed on location. *Some scenes of the 1978 film ''[[The Greek Tycoon]]'' starring [[Anthony Quinn]] and [[Jacqueline Bisset]] were filmed in Corfu.<ref>{{Citation |title=The Greek Tycoon (1978) - Filming & production - IMDb |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077636/locations/ |access-date=2024-03-26 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Actors Jacqueline Bisset and Anthony Quinn filming "The Greek Tycoon"...|url=https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/actors-jacqueline-bisset-and-anthony-quinn-filming-the-news-photo/1249215203|website=Getty Images|date=2023-03-24|accessdate=2024-03-26|language=en-gb}}</ref> The film is a fictionalized account of the life of the Greek shipping magnate, [[Aristotle Onassis]]. *The 1980 French comedy ''[[Jupiter's Thigh]]'' starring [[Annie Girardot]] and [[Philippe Noiret]] includes some scenes in [[Corfu Town]].<ref>{{Citation |title=On a volé la cuisse de Jupiter (1980) - Filming & production - IMDb |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081276/locations/ |access-date=2024-03-26 |language=en-US}}</ref> *The 1981 James Bond movie ''[[For Your Eyes Only (film)|For Your Eyes Only]]'' has a number of scenes filmed in Corfu. The most memorable scene of the film to be bound with the island is of the underwater ancient Greek temple, with a huge turtle swimming in front of the camera; a casino scene was also filmed at the [[Achilleion (Corfu)|Achilleion]].<ref name="Bond Casino">{{cite web |url=http://www.007.info/FactfileFYEO.asp |title=007 Fact website |publisher=007.info |date=24 June 1981 |access-date=29 June 2009}}</ref> Other scenes filmed here include those tracing 'Melina' and James' walk through the city's streets, and Melina being greeted by Bond at Pontikonisi island. A major action element was filmed on the largest sandy beach on the island, Issos Beach in Agios Georgios South, involving a beach buggy chase along the dunes. The film's scene depicting a Greek wedding was filmed at the Bouas-Danilia traditional village (Μπούας Δανίλια παραδοσιακό χωριό).<ref name="Bond Casino"/> Action scenes were also filmed at Neo Frourio.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079574/locations |title=imdb |website=[[IMDb]]}}</ref> *The 1984 Greek film "Η Τιμή της Αγάπης" (''The Price of Love''), directed by [[Tonia Marketaki]] is a tragic love story taking place in Corfu. It is based on the novel ''Honour and Money'' by Konstantinos Theotokis.<ref name=Tainiothiki>{{cite web |title=The Price of Lave |url=http://www.tainiothiki.gr/v2/filmography/view/1/2290/ |publisher=Tainiothiki |language=el |access-date=4 May 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130301062947/http://www.tainiothiki.gr/v2/filmography/view/1/2290 |archive-date=1 March 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref> *Corfu is also the setting of a 1987 [[BBC]] TV series version, and a 2005 BBC movie version, of ''[[My Family and Other Animals]]'', [[Gerald Durrell]]'s book about his childhood in Corfu in the late 1930s *''[[The Gaze of the Gorgon]]'' (1992): a poem-film for [[BBC]] television by British poet [[Tony Harrison]]. The film examines the politics of conflict in the 20th century using the Gorgon as a metaphor. The imaginary narration of the film is done through the mouth of German-Jewish poet [[Heinrich Heine]]. The film describes the connection between the Corfu Gorgon at the [[Artemis Temple of Corfu]] and [[Kaiser Wilhelm II]].<ref>{{cite web |last=BFI |title=The Gaze of the Gorgon |url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/478387?view=synopsis |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131213075155/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/478387?view=synopsis |url-status=dead |archive-date=2013-12-13}}</ref><ref name="Merten2004"/> Harrison concludes his 1992 film-poem by making a proposal that in the [[List of European Council meetings|1994 European Union summit in Corfu]], Heine's statue be returned to Corfu on time to preside over the new Europe so that EU can keep its eyes open and not turn to stone from the Gorgon's gaze.<ref name=Merten2004>{{cite book |last=Merten |first=Karl |title=Antike Mythen – Mythos Antike: posthumanistische Antikerezeption in der englischsprachigen Lyrik der Gegenwart |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Dg6tAf3x1zIC&pg=PA106 |access-date=4 May 2013 |year=2004 |publisher=Wilhelm Fink Verlag |isbn=978-3-7705-3871-3 |pages=105–106 |quote=der Räume und Kunstwerke des Achilleions hat, von entsprechendem dokumentarischem Filmmaterial begleitet.}}</ref><ref name="The Independent1">{{cite news |title=Sunny side up but it's no yolk at all |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/television--sunny-side-up-but-its-no-yolk-at-all-1555475.html |access-date=9 May 2013 |newspaper=The Independent |date=4 October 1992 |first=Allison |last=Pearson}}</ref><ref name="Kelleher1996">{{cite book |author=Joe Kelleher |title=Tony Harrison |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iNFaAAAAMAAJ&q=and+to+keep+new+Europe+open-eyed+they+let+the+marble+poet+preside |access-date=9 May 2013 |page=53 |year=1996 |publisher=Northcote House |isbn=978-0-7463-0789-2 |quote=The poem concludes with the proposal that 'to keep new Europe open-eyed/ they let the marble poet preside...'.}}</ref> *[[ITV (TV channel)|ITV]] aired a TV series named ''[[The Durrells|The Durrells in Corfu]]'' in April 2016 and ultimately lasting four seasons, concluding in May 2019. It was a biographical series detailing [[Gerald Durrell]]'s childhood on Corfu.
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