Filming 1962

Saga Studio Filmselskabet was on Fur for a week in 1962, to shoot the film Venus from Vestø. The actors lived in Skive during the filming, but they ate at the Guesthouse.

Several of the island's residents participated as extras in the film and several of the island's current occupant still remember the recordings.

The picture here is at Gammelgård on Nord Fur

Link to Skive folkeblad -> The article

Excerpts from the article

It made a big impression on the Furbos when a film crew, including the children's film star Jan Priiskorn Schmidt, visited the island in 1962 for a week to make recordings for the film »Venus from Vestø«.
55 years later, they were able to refresh their memories on Monday, when Jan Priiskorn Schmidt in a somewhat older version again visited the island to…

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