The third man
The classic is Carol Reed’s espionage thriller “The Third Man” (1949). Joseph Cotton as western writer Holly Martins is drawn into criminal machinations by Harry Lime (Orson Welles) in post-war Vienna. The chase through the sewers is as legendary as Anton Karas’ zither melody
Before Sunrise
Richard Linklater’s “Before Sunrise – Stopover in Vienna” (1995) is also a classic. Two tourists – he American (Ethan Hawke), she French (Julie Delpy) – get to know each other on the train and decide to stroll through Vienna for a night and get to know each other
A dark desire
In 2011, David Cronenberg narrated the relationship between Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen), CG Jung (Michael Fassbender) and patient Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightley) in straightforward pictures. In an interview with KURIER, Cronenberg emphasized how important it was for him to shoot in original locations: “There is no place in the world that looks like the Belvedere”
Mission: Impossible
In 2015 Tom Cruise came for “Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation” and let himself be spectacularly abseiled (and with Rebecca Ferguson in her arms) on the facade of the opera
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