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Michael Curtiz’s 1942 classic, Casablanca, starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman and Paul Henreid, is a must see for any film enthusiast. The film is a black and white production set in Casablanca, Morocco, during WW2. Most of the film is set in a bar by the name of ‘Rick’s Café Américain’ which Bogart’s character, Rick, is the proprietor of. We don’t know much about Rick at the beginning of the film, only that he is a wealthy man, as suggested by his look and his occupation as a nightclub owner. Then, Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman) comes into the story when she enters Rick’s bar with her husband, Victor Laszlo, played by Paul Henreid. When Rick sees Ilsa there is a very serious look between the two of them suggesting they have unfinished business seeing as they knew each other in the past. The scenes shot in Rick’s bar introduce numerous characters of different ethnicity and racial background including Sam (the pianist), German soldiers, Italian business men, French police and various...