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| | | | Riesenrad & Prater: The Site of a Memorable Orson Welles movie scene | | | | | |
A short 30 minute, if that, U-bahn (Vienna's underground system), from Stadtpark Station and Vienna's District 1, you must go to Prater to ride the Riesenrad. If you're planning to go to Vienna, rent the movie "The Third Man", a classic Carol Reed movie, starring Orson Welles in 1949. The movie is a mystery thriller that also provides a lot of history about post World War 2 Vienna. Personally, I adore Austrian Actress Alida Valli who plays Anna Schimdt, a Czech woman trying to pass as Austrian so that she wouldn't be sent to that country now under Russian occupation and Lime's love interest. There's a memorable scene when the "hero" Holly Martins finds Lime and they have a discussion on the Riesenrad. The scene is famous because of one of Orson Welles most famous movie lines: "Don't be so gloomy. After all it's not that awful. What the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock." Leave a Comment Phone: 0043/1/729 54 30Website: http://www.tourist-net.co.at/w_pr_3e.htm
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