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Почему англичане выбрали фильм "Третий человек" лучшим в своем списке, может озадачить современного зрителя.
Меня, например.
Конечно, год. 1949. Для этого времени, вероятно, лента порвала. Что порвала?

Магия Уэллса Орсона? Слаженная работа всех актеров? Ведь сюжет, по нашим временам, слабоват.
И эта музыка, звучащая издевательски...
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"По приглашению друга детства Гарри Лайма (Орсон Уэллс) в Вену приезжает автор вестернов, американский писатель Холли Мартинс (Джозеф Коттен). Добравшись по адресу, он узнаёт от дворника (Пауль Хёрбигер), что Гарри совсем недавно погиб в результате несчастного случая, произошедшего прямо под окнами его дома: его сбила машина. Мартинс успевает только на похороны друга, где встречает офицера британской военной разведки майора Кэллоуэя (Тревор Ховард) и загадочную красавицу Анну (Алида Валли)."

as an NKVD agent codenamed "ABO"

Date: 2018-12-09 10:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] belkafoto.livejournal.com
Harry Peter Smollett, OBE (1912–1980), born Hans Peter Smolka and sometimes continuing to use that name as a nom de plume even after he changed it by deed poll, was a journalist for the Daily Express and later a Central Europe correspondent for The Times.[1] During the Second World War, Smollett became head of the Russian section at Britain's Ministry of Information and was responsible for organising pro-Soviet propaganda. He was later identified as a Soviet agent.

Born in Vienna, he came to Britain in 1933 as an NKVD agent codenamed "ABO". Although he changed his name to Smollett on becoming a naturalised British subject in 1938, he returned to using the surname Smolka when he returned to Vienna after the war.[2] According to the Mitrokhin Archive, Smollett had been recruited by Kim Philby.[3]

George Orwell included him on the list of those who "in my opinion are crypto-communists, fellow-travellers or inclined that way and should not be trusted as propagandists"[1] that he gave to the Information Research Department in 1949 as "almost certainly agent of some kind" and "a very slimy person"[4]

Re: as an NKVD agent codenamed "ABO"

Date: 2018-12-09 10:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] belkafoto.livejournal.com
Graham Greene's biographer, Michael Shelden, refers to the inside joke that appears in the film The Third Man (1949), filmed in Vienna. Greene wrote the screenplay and used the name Smolka for a bar because Smolka/Smollett had given uncredited advice on the filming

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