{"id":17938,"date":"2021-04-12T09:46:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T07:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fromplacetoplace.travel\/?p=17938"},"modified":"2021-03-24T10:02:17","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T08:02:17","slug":"third-man-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fromplacetoplace.travel\/austria\/vienna\/third-man-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"On the trail of the Third Man in the “Third Man Museum”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Do you still know the film “The Third Man” by Carol Reed? I admit, the black and white film from 1949 is not exactly current in the cinema, but it belongs to the classics for me and it is always fun to watch it again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The film was shot on some locations in Vienna. There are “Third Man” tours in the summer and there is the “Third Man Museum” in Vienna.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And that’s exactly where I was magically drawn to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Storyline of the movie<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The setting of the film is Vienna after the Second World War. Like my hometown Berlin, Vienna was divided into occupation zones of the four victorious powers. There was also a fifth sector in the Inner City, which was administered jointly by all four powers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The American Holly Martins receives a job offer from his childhood friend Harry Lime (Orson Wells), who lives in Vienna, and travels to the city. There he learns that Harry Lime has died shortly before in a traffic accident. At the funeral, Martins is approached by British Major Calloway, who informs him that Lime had been a pusher of tainted penicillin. Martins is horrified and begins on his own to get to the bottom of things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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