Filming locations · Noir
The Third Man (1949)
In postwar Vienna, a writer looks into the death of his old friend Harry Lime.
- Released
- 1949
- Director
- Carol Reed
- Runtime
- 104 min
- Shot in
- Vienna
Where was The Third Man filmed?
Carol Reed shot in a Vienna still divided between four powers and scarred by bombing, which gives the film its unique atmosphere.
The film won the Grand Prix at Cannes and an Academy Award for its black-and-white cinematography.
The film on a map
3 locations, in the order they appear on screen.
Scene by scene
The funeral
Zentralfriedhof
The film opens with Harry’s funeral at the Zentralfriedhof, and ends there too.
Open set hours48.1522° N / 16.4410° EThe accident
Palais Pallavicini
Holly visits Harry’s building at Palais Pallavicini, where the “accident” took place.
Private · exterior only48.2074° N / 16.3666° EThe Ferris wheel
Wiener Riesenrad
Harry meets Holly in a Riesenrad cabin and gives his cuckoo-clock speech.
Ticket or tour required48.2166° N / 16.3958° E
Trivia for the obsessed
Anton Karas’s zither music became a worldwide hit.
Orson Welles is said to have written the cuckoo-clock speech himself.
Vienna runs a Third Man tour of the city’s sewers.
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