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Fort Boyard
“It’s not a house yet, it’s an old fort in the open sea.”
Laëtitia (Joanna Shimkus)
Manu and Roland (Alain Delon and Lino Ventura) come back from an expedition with a treasure. Even though they have become rich, Laëtitia (Joanna Shimkus) has passed away. To pay tribute to the woman, Manu and Roland will return the memories and money of Laëtitia to her family who lives on the island of Aix.
Laëtitia wanted to buy Fort Boyard and turn it into a hotel, Roland ended up buying the fort in her memory. Unfortunately for him, the mercenaries who killed Laëtitia find him. A battle between Manu and Roland against the mercenaries begins.
Fort Boyard is the setting for the last third of the film. The filming took place in September 1966 and lasted two weeks. At the time, Jacques Antoine, the creator of the game show that would make the fort famous, announced that it was this film that made him aware of the fort’s existence and that later led him to choose it as the location for his new adventure game.
The soundtrack of the film reissued in 2005 includes 11 tracks, including 6 unreleased tracks with a cover of the main theme.
Fort Boyard
World-famous thanks to the television show to which it gave its name, Fort Boyard is one of the flagship monuments of the Charente-Maritime.
The construction of Fort Boyard began in 1804 and ended in 1857. Approved by Napoleon Bonaparte, the project takes place on a sandbank called the longe de Boyard.
Intended to protect the harbor from the English navy during the war between France and England, the building was finally transformed into a prison shortly after its inauguration.
Afterwards, it was abandoned and nicknamed the “Fort of Abandonment” by the inhabitants. It remains one of the most emblematic elements of the Rochefort Naval Arsenal. During the Second World War, German soldiers used it for shooting practice and damaged it.
Finally, after having passed through several hands, abandoned and then bought back, Fort Boyard regained its superb appearance in the early 1990s when the famous game show of the same name was produced there. The shooting of the show is a pretext for a thorough cleaning of the building. More than fifty centimeters of guano were removed and a considerable number of modifications and improvements were made. A lifting platform was also built to allow boats from Fouras to dock. Over the years, Fort Boyard became a real celebrity and gained a prestige that even Napoleon could not have imagined in his time.
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