When we talk about Carol Reed’s The Third Man (1949) and the way the film is done, we tend to focus on the use of low light, hard shadows, the intense use of a tilted camera or the striking zither play by Anton Karas. The film is based on an idea by producer Alexander Korda and the novel written by Graham Greene. It has been shot in 1948 and was released in 1949 (USA) and 1950 (West-GER, AUT). The film very much deals with the post WW II situation in Vienna, the occupation by the allied forces and the black market, through which numerous racketeers tried to gain wealth, no matter the costs. It even mentions the theft, adulterating and reselling of Penicillin, which actually took place. In 1946 several Berlin racketeers had been accused by taking powder as a base and pretending to have rare Penicillin to offer. There are plenty of things, which are worth mentioning, nevertheless one of the most striking sequences in the films is one of those rare moments, in which neither a dutc...