{"id":118349,"date":"2025-09-06T09:47:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T09:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/118349\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T09:47:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T09:47:08","slug":"documentary-celebrates-50-years-of-oscar-nominated-guernsey-film-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/118349\/","title":{"rendered":"Documentary celebrates 50 years of Oscar-nominated Guernsey film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Filmmaker Lars Janssen filmed Andr\u00e9 at a variety of locations which featured in the original film to &#8220;reinterpret&#8221; some of the key scenes, including Castle Cornet and St Martin Parish Church.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He also interviewed &#8220;about 20 people&#8221; who were involved in the 1975 film over a two month period, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Janssen said he spoke to people including a pet owner whose dog was used in the film, as well as carpenters who worked on the set, firemen who helped create fake snow, and even an actor who was cast but then rejected by the director for being &#8220;too tall&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While most of his film had already been edited, Janssen still expected not to get &#8220;much sleep&#8221; before the weekend, as he put the final touches to the film.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Laura Harrison, operations manager at the Victor Hugo Centre, said the documentary &#8211; which the centre commissioned &#8211; would be shown on Saturday 6 September as part of a <a href=\"https:\/\/arts.gg\/events\/the-story-of-adele-h\/\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">programme of events to celebrate the anniversary, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said the event at the Princess Royal Performing Arts Centre would also have talks from experts, followed by a screening of the feature film.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tickets cost \u00a325, plus a booking fee &#8211; but free tickets were available for local students, she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Filmmaker Lars Janssen filmed Andr\u00e9 at a variety of locations which featured in the original film to &#8220;reinterpret&#8221;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-118349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}