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The Third Man - the early postwar years in Wien


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After the war ended, Austria was divided up into 4 Allied zones, the city of Vienna was also divided into zones or sectors. In the early postwar years there was poverty and the black market, criminality and shortages as well as the Allied Military Government ruling over the land.
The central figure is Harry Lime, an American petty criminal very much involved in large scale black market dealing and organised crime. To evade his persuers he fakes his own death as an accident in which another person is killed and buried under Lime's identity.
Lime's friend, an American author and journalist, has just arrived in Vienna, but too late. The start of an exciting and intriguing thriller, the film ends with a final pursuit through the underworld of Vienna, ending with Lime dying for a second time. A classic film of the 1950s with Orson Welles in the rôle of Harry Lime. Original German text.

The original film seems to have vanished again, here is a trailer I found:

 

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and here is the theme replayed, composed by Anton Karras

 

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An alpine cottage scene with Zither player, Altaussee, Steiermark, pre 1850

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