Garabit Viaduct in Fiction
The Garabit Viaduct was used to represent the condemned "Cassandra Crossing" bridge in the 1976 film The Cassandra Crossing. In the film the Cassandra Crossing has been unused and derelict for 30 or 40 years and is considered dangerous, to the extent that people living nearby moved away fearing it could collapse.
In 1964, French director Henri-Georges Clouzot shot The Inferno (L'Enfer) starring Serge Reggiani and Romy Schneider at the nearby Hotel Garabit (renamed Hotel du Lac for the movie) and on the lake. The film was never completed after disputes between Clouzot and key actors and crew and Clouzot himself suffering a heart attack.
Added pressure came from a deadline after which an electricity company planned to drain the lake to generate power at a nearby dam, also used as a backdrop for the stillborn movie.
The saga was covered in a documentary screened in June 2010 by Sky Arts 2 in the UK.
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