Movies filmed in Corfu

the same film were shot in Corfu. For instance, the romantic walk that Melina and James undertake through the town’s colorful streets and the scene of Melina being greeted by who else ! but Bond on the island of Pontikonisi has catpulted Corfu in the big time world movie landscape. The colorful scene of the traditional Greek Wedding too was shot at the picturesque Bouas-Danilia Village.

Ever since Corfu carved out a niche for itself as an ideal destination for shooting films post “For Your Eyes Only”, it was the turn of the BBC to shoot on this island. A Television serial and a movie which in fact was the adapted version of Gerald Durrell’s best selling book “My Family and Other Animals” that was primarily based on the author’s childhood spent in the island of Corfu in the decade of the thirties.