The Third Man

Illustration:IAEA, UN Ball. Hofburg Imperial Palace. Vienna, Austria.

Illustration: The Thompson Mesquita group.. Daniel Mesquita & Enrique Thompson (the one on the right..I forgot the name:) sorry...he was just jamming) , playing at Cafe Kreiski one night around September 2013. Vienna, Austria.

...worth to watch! a mesmerizing movie..."The Third Man". showing post-war Vienna, was the most popular movie at the British box office (and in other countries) for 1949...but In Austria, the film ran for only a few weeks...built on the aesthetic foundations of german expressionism the steady diagonal shots add a wonderful graphic tension to the whole plot. graham greene based the character of harry lime on british double agent kim philby, who was greene's superior in the british secret intelligence service. The famous scene at cafe mozart was shot somewhere else..but greene loved to spend part of his day writing in there anyway. Orson welles was absent from the shooting set most of the times leading the director to replace him with doubles on most of the "shadow" scenes including the one from the movie's poster...but welles improvised this most famous line in the movie: " HARRY - in Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed, but they produced Michaelangelo - Leonardo Da Vinci, and the Renaissance...In Switzerland, they had brotherly love. They had five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce?...The cuckoo clock. So long, Holly." (...but actually the cuckoo clock was a product of germany's black forest area and the swiss at the time of the borgias were the most fierce warriors in europe )