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Casablanca

Michael Curtiz · 1942 CE · Film · Modern / American · Contemporary

Rick runs a saloon in Vichy Casablanca, does favors for nobody, and keeps two stolen letters of transit hidden in the piano. A Czech resistance leader arrives needing them, travelling with the woman who walked out on Rick in Paris. A cynic's saloon at the crossroads of a war.

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