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Bond town to mark 007 minutes of fame

By Thomas Hochwarter

The Vorarlberg town where key scenes of the last James Bond movie were shot is to have its own 007 museum.

Bregenz officials have created a permanent exhibit at the town’s Festspielhaus that opens on 20 March. Entry will be free of charge.

The museum will have props from the location where "Quantum of Solace" was shot last summer as well as pictures and fact sheets to provide an intense "behind the scenes" insight.

Other museum sections look back at the public viewing area for the European Football Championships in the town as well as the stage for the opera "Tosca" by Giacomo Puccini that was the setting for seven minutes of Bond footage.

Vital scenes of the 22nd Bond flick – in which the main character, played by British actor Daniel Craig, discovers his enemies’ identities – were shot at the impressive stage on the shore of Lake Constance. A 250-strong team was on location for nine days of work last May.

And it was claimed back then that the curse of the James Bond film set had followed the production after a crew member, a 58-year-old technician from Britain, was found lying in a pool of blood after a night-out celebrating. It was the fourth instance of harm to a crew member working on a Bond film in the recent past.

Police said the British film technician, who has not been named by authorities, had met an Austrian woman aged 47 in a local bar in the town of Dornbirn near Bregenz where shooting took place. She invited him back to her home where she had attacked him with a steak knife in the bedroom.

A police spokesman said back then, in early May: "The exact details are unclear, but the woman appears to have attacked the man with a steak knife in the bedroom. At some stage, he wrestled the knife free from the woman and used it to drive her off before staggering through the door and collapsing in the street.

"He suffered deep wounds to the head and hands, and the first policeman to arrive thought he had died as his pulse was so weak and there was so much blood in the street."

Austrian Times

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