Casablanca

Casablanca is a 1942 film set during World War II in the Vichy-controlled Moroccan city of Casablanca. The film was directed by Michael Curtiz, and stars Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine and Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund. It focuses on Rick's conflict between, in the words of one character, love and virtue: he must choose between his love for Ilsa and his need to do the right thing by helping her husband, Resistance hero Victor Laszlo, escape from Casablanca and continue his fight against the Nazis.

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Casablanca

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With the coming
of the Second World War...

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...many eyes in imprisoned Europe
turned hopefully or desperately...

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... toward the freedom of the Americas.

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Lisbon became
the great embarkation point.

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But not everybody could get
to Lisbon directly.

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And so a torturous, roundabout
refugee trail sprang up.

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Paris to Marseilles.

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Across the Mediterranean to Oran.

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Then by train or auto or foot
across the rim of Africa...

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... to Casablanca in French Morocco.

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Here, the fortunate ones,
through money or influence or luck...

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...might obtain exit visas
and scurry to Lisbon.

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And from Lisbon to the New World.

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But the others wait in Casablanca.

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And wait...

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...and wait...

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...and wait.

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"To all officers:

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Two German couriers carrying official
documents murdered on train from Oran.

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Murderer and possible accomplices
headed for Casablanca.

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Round up all suspicious characters
and search them for stolen document.

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Important. "

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