Director Orson Welles filming the thriller The Deep on the island of Hvar in 1967. (Photo courtesy of Paul Bradbury | Total Hvar)
Photographs of Orson Welles directing the unfinished The Deep in Croatia will go on exhibit this month as part of a celebration of the centennial of his birth.
The Galeriji Fotokluba Split exhibit at 5 Marmont Street in Split, Croatia runs May 5-26.
The exhibition will be opened by Hvar Mayor Rino Budrović, and the keynote address will be delivered by film critic Mark Njegić, and Čedo Perić. the son of the former owner of the ship used in the filming.
“My father was the owner and builder of a yacht Saracen, and he spend few weeks in October and November 1967, with Mr. Orson Welles and his team filming The Deep in Hvar. They joined him again at some point during 1968. in Primošten,” Perić told Wellesnet.
Some of the Croatian photography taken on the set can be glimpsed at slobodnadalmacija.hr/Scena/Kultura/tabid/81/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/284515/Default.aspx
We first learned of photos taken during The Deep shoot back in late 2012 when Paul Bradbury of the website Total Hvar shared them with Wellesnet. The black and white photographs show Welles in character as Russ Brewer and directing co-stars Jeanne Moreau, Laurence Harvey and Oja Kodar.
Those photographs were supplied to Total Hvar by the son of a cook, who worked on the set.
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