Seventy years ago, with the desire to adapt Ernest Hemingway's Fiesta for the cinema, screenwriter Peter Viertel was seduced by the French city, thus making it the birthplace of surfing in Europe.
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Seventy years ago, with the desire to adapt Ernest Hemingway's Fiesta for the cinema, screenwriter Peter Viertel was seduced by the French city, thus making it the birthplace of surfing in Europe.