''Reality does not conform to the ideal''

365 Film Challenge - The Third Man (1949)

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“You know what the fellow said—in Italy, for thirty 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 five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.”

The cuckcoo clock was actually of German origin, just saying