Titel	The Third Man (film)
Labels
ID	8324
Type	film
Date	1949

Collection(s)	Transatlantic Networks
Uri(s)	https://ica.acdh-dev.oeaw.ac.at/entity/8324/
Notes	This hugely successful film version of the fictionalized Vienna had a very strong impact on the public, inspired many writers to draw on the potential of a city overshadowed by crime and violence, and affected the imagination of hundreds of thousands of visitors. It also helped shape a vital tradition in crime fiction (Zacharasiewicz, Transatlantic Networks 280). Before writing the screenplay, Graham Greene worked out the atmosphere, characterization, and mood of the story by writing a novella as a source text for the screenplay. He never intended it to be read by the general public, although it was later published under the same name as the film. In 1948, he met Elizabeth Montagu in Vienna. She gave him tours of the city, its sewers, and some of its less reputable night-clubs. She also introduced Greene to Peter Smolka, the central European correspondent for The Times. Smolka gave Greene the stories about the black market in Vienna.