The third man
The classic is Carol Reed’s spy thriller “The Third Man” (1949). Joseph Cotton as Western writer Holly Martins is drawn to the criminal intrigues of Harry Lyme (Orson Welles) in postwar Vienna. The sewer chase is as legendary as Anton Karas’s zither melody
before the sun rise
Richard Linkler’s “Before Sunrise – Stopover in Vienna” (1995) is also a classic. Two tourists – the American (Ethan Hawke), and the French (Julie Delby) – got to know each other on the train and decided to take a night out in Vienna and get to know each other
Dim desire
In 2011, David Cronenberg narrated the relationship between Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen), CG Jung (Michael Fassbender) and patient Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightley) in live photos. In an interview with KURIER, Kronenberg emphasized the importance of filming in original locations: “No place in the world feels like Belvedere”
Mission: Impossible
In 2015, Tom Cruise came out for “Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation” and allowed himself to go stunning (with Rebecca Ferguson in her arms) on the front of the opera
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