article_snippet.sent: You will probably know Kefalonia because this was the setting for Louis de Bernières's novel Captain Corelli's Mandolin and, in direct contravention of usual Hollywood policy, was where the movie was actually filmed.
article_snippet.sent: Great book, reasonable film (despite the fact Nicolas Cage, who played Corelli, was woefully miscast) but you can see why the Kefalonians were not wholly thrilled to bits by either.
article_snippet.sent: the Kefalonians took probably the two worst events in the island's history - the brutal massacre of Italian troops in 1943 and the awful earthquake of 1953 - and used Italian troops as grist to the story's romantic mill.
article_snippet.sent: Kefalonia is perhaps best known as the setting for Louis de Bernières's novel Captain Corelli's Mandolin Louis de Bernières's novel Captain Corelli's Mandolin .
article_snippet.sent: The 2001 film adaptation starred Nicholas Cage and Penelope Cruz but focussed on negative events .
article_snippet.sent: In a rare case for Hollywood the film was actually shot in Kefalonia where the book's events took place .