By the way, the actor, Conrad Veidt, who played the Nazi major was a refugee from the Nazis. He said he played the role with all the arrogance and cruelty he could muster, because the Nazis he had known were arrogant and cruel. Veidt was a combat veteran of World War I and politcally liberal. His wife was Jewish so he and she fled the Nazi regime. Good actor; good human being, and his work helped make it a damned good movie!
This scene and this movie, which were made in 1942, were incredibly powerful. I was born in 1945, so most of my school teachers were veterans who went to school under the G.I. Bill, and they told us of the atrocities of the Nazis and of the Japs following the Bushido Code. The Axis states invaded unprepared neighbor states, and repeatedly butchered military prisoners and civilians. The singing of La Marseillaise was an act of defiance and resistance, and the movie audiences knew that!
The irony is that the Nazis are singing a song all about defending Germany from foreign invasion along the Rhine (aka their french boarder) while the French nationalists are singing a song about killing the enemies of the French people and using their blood to water their fields.
One of the great movie scenes of all time, but they clipped it about 30 seconds too soon. Major Strasse (Conrad Veidt) then demands of Captain Renaud (Claude Rains who in the end turns out to be a good guy) that he close Rick's (Humphrey Bogart) club. Renaud says he has no reason. Strasse demands that he find one. Renaud then orders it closed because he "Shocked, Shocked" to find there is gambling going on. Then the waiter comes up and gives him his winnings for the night.
you have to realize that the nazis had made La Marseillaise illegal in occupied France, so there was a great deal of symbolism in the song being sung,
@tvidalq your right, thats why they were able to sing it there, of course we're still talking about Hollywood, and this was a movie was used to get America behind the war effort
a fine anthem; unfortunately a people descendant of the great germanic tribe the franks who had the disaster of being romanized by the italien untermensch.
I find all such scenes to be very cheesy. Why is it such an emotional victory? The Germans were singing their song. The French started singing their song. They should have glared at each and other and left it at that. Why the tears and everything? Did they prove their superiority by outsinging their adversaries? We tend to forget that a majority of German soldiers were not hardcore Nazis, only nationalists.
There are very few scenes that move me, but this one does. It's not about "outsinging", it's an act of resistance against indifference and opportunism that made the nazi regime possible even though the majority of germans weren't "hardcore nazis". The subtle gesture of affirmation from a cynic like Rick is as important as the inspiring potential from an idealist like Victor László. The tears are dispensable but nevertheless it's one of the most powerful movie scenes ever.
@terpentintrinker I love the movie. I just did not get the message of the scene. One anthem is more powerful than the other? Because there were more of them, they managed to shut the Germans up. What if there were like 4 French sympathizers and 20 German troops in the room. The scene would not have been that powerful then. It just seems a bit absurd that the volume of a song can prove a point - even if the fact is that Nazis were dicks and we all agree on that.
In my opinion the Marseillaise is not only the more powerful anthem but the ONLY powerful anthem I know (altough I'm not french). But as I said that's only a personal opinion. I think the short version of the message is, that when the silent majority starts to sing together the nazis don't stand a chance. The nazis are outnumbered but it takes somebody to make the others stand as one. It's mainly a symbolic act and I think it's also kind of a turning point in the movie
@iamafan07 The crying wasn't scripted- you have to remember that this movie was shot in 1941, and almost all of the background characters (and a few of the main characters) were actual European refugees. That is why it was so emotional for them.
@Ivashanko No... I get it why they would cry. I came to this scene from cracked, and so I know about the background. I don't get it why it should move people who are not impacted.
@iamafan07 I am not making myself clear on this. I guess my point is that in a war, no side is actually superior to the other. The ideologies behind war may be different, and one side may commit more atrocities than the other, but the war is always brutal for both sides, and more often than not its the soldiers that bear the brunt of hate and disapproval when they are actually just following orders. So
Die Wacht am Rhein was written to oppose French encroachment on Germany in 1840, following a pattern that had been repeated numerous times since Louis XIV. La Marseillaise was written to oppose German encroachment on France in collaboration with exiled French aristocrats during the Revolution. Perhaps the solution would have been to declare the Rhine a demilitarized international zone, off limits to both countries, and we would have been spared a couple of world wars. It works so well in Korea.
Wow, the French treat their national anthem with pride and respect. Last I heard my country's anthem it was being violated by Steven Tyler. Woe to the Union, Vive La France!
haha, yes, let's sing the french anthem instead of the german one, b/c the germans were the badies...instead, the french promote freedom and fraternity...and let's sign it in f*cking morroco, for god sakes, who couldn't give more of a f*ck for another imperialistic country.
Seriously people, the irony is just too much...if you like this scene it's b/c you must have from another imperialistic country.
@goldcoastlawyer Google search Vichy France, the puppet government the Nazis setup after taking over. Gen. Patton fought them in the invasion of North Africa. Vichy French forces abroad fought the allies with a vigour that caused the Winston Churchill to remark that he wished the French had fought as hard against the Germans in 1940. The average Frenchman hated the Vichy puppet government. At the end of the movie Louie in disgust, dropped the bottle of "Vichy water" in the waste bin.
What say is so ridiculous because it's true that the American propaganda has always been " very francophile " and the French in their history have proved that they are brave people .
Just for the record: The song the Germans are singing, called "Die Wacht am Rhein" (meaning The guard at the rhine) is a song from the time after napoleon and it says basicly that if Germany stands united, France will no longer be able to occupy parts of it as they used to the last 200 years. It has nothing to do with nazis, although they used it for their propaganda.
A very powerful scene! Quite a few writer corroborated on the Casa Blanca script and the name of the gentleman who wrote this scene escapes me at the moment. As the story goes, on seeing the complete film, the writer of this scene also got teary eyed. It's perfectly written, filmed and edited. Ingrid Bergman is beautiful! So is Madeleine Lebeau! This is film making at its finest. I never tire of watching Casa Blanca....
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@rogerzin125 How very postmodern. Its all relative isnt it - I mean, the Nazis were no worse than anyone else were they - and the White House was built by the sweat of negro slaves.
@skeilak My comment was intended ironically. If you had read the comment I was replying to it should have been obvious. I was being sarcastic towards the morons who deny the holocaust.
Diese weinende Blodine da...die ist genau wie Frankreich! Erst das Maul groß aufreißen und dann gibts was vom Linksrheinischen Nachbarn (auf Deutsch gesagt) auf die Fresse, am Ende ist dann das Gehäule groß.
What did la marseillaise for the african people in 20th century? What did la marseillaise for Vietnam in the 50ies?? Democracy??? Where??? En Algerie in the 60ies???
@RoemischKatholisch ok, it's official...you are a knucklhead.and don't know history..at the time, Casablanca was part of FRENCH morocco....they are on FRENCH soil....
Now for the english and french: France ever wanted the Rhein as frontier to Germany, but there is not one frenchmen left of the rhine. Take a look on Louis XIV wars on Germany in 17th century and Napoléon! In 1840 the french parlament postulated the Rhein-frontier again. In this situation my people created the "Wacht am Rhein" and the "Deutschlandlied", our national anthem. Both themes are hymnes of self-defending. God bless our holy Deutschland!
@DACalvinify The song is called "Die Wacht am Rhein". The merchant Max Schneckenburger wrote a 5 stanza poem, about German territories in France. (1800 AD ). First German translation: Es braust ein Ruf wie Donnerhall,
wie Schwertgeklirr und Wogenprall:
Zum Rhein, zum Rhein, zum deutschen Rhein,
wer will des Stromes Hüter sein? A call roars like thunderbolt,
Vive la democracie? Pour les Africains in 1940´s? Pour les Vietnamesiens? The "Wacht am Rhein" is a self-defending-song against france which ever postulated the Rhine as frontier to Germany. But there is no frenchman left of the Rhine. Ingrid Bergman filmed in Berlin in 1938, did you know that? In WW1 on the western front, 50 % blacks and indian died. That´s french and english democracy!
@RoemischKatholisch Hi. Perhaps you missed the message of this scene; where expatriots of the former French empire find themselves in Nazi land in Northern Africa at the time..1940's. Africans,Vietnamese&other races deemed unsuitable for existence by the Nazi purity code would have perished as well as Jewish folks.Ask the Vietnamese under Japanese occupation how good their lives were?OrGuam?OrKorea?Or The Philippines? In your rant against anything Western-don't wave the Nazi flag too much. Peace
I get chills when I see this video (I have the movie). It's such a shame that Americans are moved to tears when they see the underdog overcome the tyrants when the tyrants are not American but they are completely oblivious to atrocities their own country has committed since WW2. The US is an empire and some day its victims will since THEIR anthemn of freedom over the Star-Spangled Banner! I just hope there won't be any blood shed...
@dsarrafi Get a life you asshole. Being a troll should be a part time hobby, not a full time occupation. As for your comments....yawn. You're putting people asleep with your ignorant ranting. No offense. Peace.
@dsarrafi you must be dreaming.France and the United States are 2 great countries and are always on the same side.France helped free the usa from british rule and the americans freed france from german rule.As far as i know France and the U.S. have never declared war on each other ever.The usa is a very liberal and giving country as is france maybe you should not judge the usa or france either.
@worseto1 I don't think you understood what I was saying. I was merely pointing out the irony of the citizens of the "greatest purveyor of violence in the world" (MLK's words not mine) shedding crocodile tears for this clip while their own empire has caused more pain and grief in the world since WW2. A most recent example is the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis killed in a war started (by this empire) based on blatant lies. It is so much easier to see someone else's atrocious Nazi mentality!
Their german pronunciation is terrible, just gonna throw that out there. Geez Hollywood, I would believe you if the characters actually spoke their "own language" well...
THE FREE in the face of tyranny is one of the high points of human history and heroism. ... a lone student standing in the path of an oncoming tank is another image worthy of this.
last i knew the chick at 1:10 is the last one still alive from the movie casablanca. such a shame but thats life. great movie one of the best and such a great scene. no more war.... french germans americans brits all allied now... gotta love that.
This wasn't film making, this was history...as it happened. This wasn't acting. The emotion you see on the faces of the actors is real. 1942 was half way through WW2 (unless you're American of course) and could have gone either way. Vive la cinema! Vive la liberte!
@23071957jazzman As it was reported on TMC recently, many of the extras in the scene were refugees and ex-patriots from Europe who escaped the nazis regime with their lives. The tears are real.
@joeybronz. You need to see Patton with Geo. C. Scott. I too like cute French girls in Chanel singing Rouget de Lisle's little ditty. But I like dead Nazis even more.
The best scene in the film? I must demur - I think it's the greatest scene in cinema, period. There is something so incredibly stirring about this, the Nazi/French juxtaposition, the faces as they sing (Yvonne's tears!), the subtle drowning of the German officers' voices, that by the time they sing "Aux arms, citoyens" I am ready to go join the French Foreign Legion. Amazing film, amazing writing, amazing acting, amazing scene.
@njplr They didn't need more people in the Legion.
They needed the peoples of the free democracies to declare war in the name of justice, when Hitler invaded the Sudetenland. Or Czechoslovakia. We of the British Commonwealth at least finally went to Polands aid, and fought for what we all knew was freedom, though we were not ourselves attacked. Wasn't a good business move though, so some waited and charged for their aid. And brought the world for the next century, with others freedom.
When attacking a nation, One must give thought that that nation will defend as hard as you attacked. Britain, America, Russia, India and many more combined overwhelmed Nazi Germany. Hitler did not give thought that many nations would fight in the fight of protecting there allies.
I'm not French, I've never given any thought to the French, and I still think without question this is the greatest, most emotional scene in movie making history.
Thank god these things were shot with film which offer very high resolutions via the original material. People a 100 years from now couldn't make 8k movies out of 1080p.
Hollywood can make as many action movies with superhuman soldiers shooting zillions of Nazis left and right as it wants...... but never in the history of cinema were the Nazis as completely and masterfully defeated as they were in this scene.
@mrchuckmorris No, La Marseillaise takes it:s own credit for being the best National anthem, so of course they were going to be defeated. What a dirty trick to place on the Nazis.
One of the most stirring moments in this epic film. Clear distinction between good and evil. This reminds us that evil will succeed unless forceably confronted, in one way or the other, by good, after all isn't it said that all it takes fro evil to succeed is for good people to do nothing? Here Victor Laslo is confronting evil and knows what to do and does it, but the hidden thing here is it wouldn't have happened unless Rick gave the OK. I know its just a movie, but What a movie!
Reading the below comments, and from what I read in the news over the last couple years, Merkel is one of the few who actually leaned towards the laissez faire approach to recovery and hell, Germany is sustaining Europe it seems. Overwhelming pressure from my president and others to piss away money like they were. Lets all go down! Germany is lucky and if I were them I would want out of the EU. The EU is using you.
No, Merkel is not "ruling" Europe in any way. I, as a german don`t like her (and have not voted for her) but asuming that there is some "evil masterplan" or comparing her to Hitler is just stupid. She is just afraid of what will happen with german economy if the Euro goes down the drain. Maybe she does force her ideas of how economy should work onto others but that hardly makes her "evil" in any way even remotely bordering that of a certain failed artist with one testicle...
@APlayOfHopesAndFears you are right. if the euro goes down the drain we are all fucked, even us lot accross the channel. its the fault of not just the bankers but those fuckwit career polititians like Barroso who cooked up the gran plan of a european super state. we dont even have a common langauge for fucks sake.
@APlayOfHopesAndFears and they want to let Turkey and its 85,000,000 in, and u know where the majority of them will settle? the quicker europe gets back to having their individual currancies again the quicker we can get back to cheaper package holidays in Greece harra!
@nobskinoff Exactly my thoughts! But after all those years it would be an incredible painfull process and most politicians are just to half assed to see it trough. So I guess they will just wait and waste even more money until all comes crashing down by itself. So they won`t have to take the blame :-(
@APlayOfHopesAndFears there are enough savvy people around who wont let them forget the calamitous fuck up they got us all into. More fool them for not giving the assorted populations a referendum, to democratly decide if they wanted to have a common currency and be part of a greater federal superstate. Even a blind halfwitted imbacile could have forseen the dangers. we will end up hanging them along with the bankers.
@APlayOfHopesAndFears Before we hang them....The top tip for 2012 is...fill the garden shed with packet chinese noodles and get a fishing rod and perhaps a small calibre rifle and a few boxes of bullets!
France should investigate its own "dirty and bloody history instead of other nations France was responsible for the deaths of 45,000 people in Algeria in 1945 and for the massacre of up to 800,000 people in Rwanda in 1994.PLEASE CHECK WIKIPEDIA
Singing La Marsaillese on Moroccan Soil? A great scene would include a Moroccan who enters the venue shoot al the Germans and French spits on Bogard , kicks Bergman in the face and sings the Moroccan National anthem while he is pein on the bodies of the European occupiers
The funny thing is that those German ought to be scared as hell, if anyone has ever bothered reading the lyrics to La Marseillaise, its actually pretty violent and graphic....
@meltdownup Many countries didn't have much of a chance. Had Britain not been an island they would have been forced to do the same.... or lose very very fast.
@99hesoe Very true. Had Nazi Germany been attached to the US east coast they would have pushed past the Mississippi, just like they did to the Soviet Union. France and Poland simply ran out of real estate.
@Badrinho Hitler did justice ? What about the jews ? No one is innocent. No one is in position to give justice. Hitler took his revenge, and thousands of people died because of his sick mind.
@Derdoppelgaenger he did justice to the French and British...who where occuping the half of the world them selfs....Hitker whas a bastard and evil man....but the ones who where occuping Africa where evil men to and they also deserved to die........In Casablanca it is not a proud thing to sing La Marsaillaise....Because the French where occuping Morocco and The French in Morocco deserved to be killed
@Badrinho As I said, no one is in position to judge. In that case, everyone deserves to die.
Besides, this is the bar where all the refugees go to try to escape to America, as you can see, there are only French people in the bar in that scene. They didn't "decide" to be to Casablanca. They are trying to impress the Nazis, do you really expect them to sing another hymn than their own ? I'm not saying the French were innocent, but that scene doesn't shock me in any way, in that context.
Utterly beautiful.
captainpanic08 12 hours ago
Germany now rules Europe, they figured it out without shooting any bullets lol.
livardo 20 hours ago
@livardo Or fucking anyone over. The latter of which, coincidentally, was most people's problem with the Third Reich. Also, water is wet.
TheOtherLioyd 9 hours ago
By the way, the actor, Conrad Veidt, who played the Nazi major was a refugee from the Nazis. He said he played the role with all the arrogance and cruelty he could muster, because the Nazis he had known were arrogant and cruel. Veidt was a combat veteran of World War I and politcally liberal. His wife was Jewish so he and she fled the Nazi regime. Good actor; good human being, and his work helped make it a damned good movie!
pt45g46 22 hours ago
This scene and this movie, which were made in 1942, were incredibly powerful. I was born in 1945, so most of my school teachers were veterans who went to school under the G.I. Bill, and they told us of the atrocities of the Nazis and of the Japs following the Bushido Code. The Axis states invaded unprepared neighbor states, and repeatedly butchered military prisoners and civilians. The singing of La Marseillaise was an act of defiance and resistance, and the movie audiences knew that!
pt45g46 22 hours ago
Germany: Good at starting shit, but they can never finish it.
TenWhoWereTaken 1 day ago
This should be shown at the beginning of the day in all German schools.Let them know.
kabewest 1 day ago
The irony is that the Nazis are singing a song all about defending Germany from foreign invasion along the Rhine (aka their french boarder) while the French nationalists are singing a song about killing the enemies of the French people and using their blood to water their fields.
cerickNY 1 day ago 2
@cerickNY really?? lol that's awesome irony.
xorasel 1 day ago
germans are no damn fun
ladrie389727 2 days ago
One of the great movie scenes of all time, but they clipped it about 30 seconds too soon. Major Strasse (Conrad Veidt) then demands of Captain Renaud (Claude Rains who in the end turns out to be a good guy) that he close Rick's (Humphrey Bogart) club. Renaud says he has no reason. Strasse demands that he find one. Renaud then orders it closed because he "Shocked, Shocked" to find there is gambling going on. Then the waiter comes up and gives him his winnings for the night.
trajan75 2 days ago
you have to realize that the nazis had made La Marseillaise illegal in occupied France, so there was a great deal of symbolism in the song being sung,
MajorDisaster63MLT 3 days ago
@MajorDisaster63MLT The anthem was illegal in the country but not in the overseas territories
tvidalq 2 days ago
@tvidalq your right, thats why they were able to sing it there, of course we're still talking about Hollywood, and this was a movie was used to get America behind the war effort
MajorDisaster63MLT 2 days ago
a fine anthem; unfortunately a people descendant of the great germanic tribe the franks who had the disaster of being romanized by the italien untermensch.
kkufner 4 days ago
I find all such scenes to be very cheesy. Why is it such an emotional victory? The Germans were singing their song. The French started singing their song. They should have glared at each and other and left it at that. Why the tears and everything? Did they prove their superiority by outsinging their adversaries? We tend to forget that a majority of German soldiers were not hardcore Nazis, only nationalists.
iamafan07 5 days ago
@iamafan07
There are very few scenes that move me, but this one does. It's not about "outsinging", it's an act of resistance against indifference and opportunism that made the nazi regime possible even though the majority of germans weren't "hardcore nazis". The subtle gesture of affirmation from a cynic like Rick is as important as the inspiring potential from an idealist like Victor László. The tears are dispensable but nevertheless it's one of the most powerful movie scenes ever.
terpentintrinker 5 days ago
@terpentintrinker I love the movie. I just did not get the message of the scene. One anthem is more powerful than the other? Because there were more of them, they managed to shut the Germans up. What if there were like 4 French sympathizers and 20 German troops in the room. The scene would not have been that powerful then. It just seems a bit absurd that the volume of a song can prove a point - even if the fact is that Nazis were dicks and we all agree on that.
iamafan07 4 days ago
@iamafan07
In my opinion the Marseillaise is not only the more powerful anthem but the ONLY powerful anthem I know (altough I'm not french). But as I said that's only a personal opinion. I think the short version of the message is, that when the silent majority starts to sing together the nazis don't stand a chance. The nazis are outnumbered but it takes somebody to make the others stand as one. It's mainly a symbolic act and I think it's also kind of a turning point in the movie
terpentintrinker 4 days ago
@terpentintrinker That actually makes sense. I agree with you. On a side note, the Polish national anthem is pretty badass too.
iamafan07 4 days ago
@iamafan07 The crying wasn't scripted- you have to remember that this movie was shot in 1941, and almost all of the background characters (and a few of the main characters) were actual European refugees. That is why it was so emotional for them.
Ivashanko 5 days ago
@Ivashanko No... I get it why they would cry. I came to this scene from cracked, and so I know about the background. I don't get it why it should move people who are not impacted.
iamafan07 4 days ago
@iamafan07 I am not making myself clear on this. I guess my point is that in a war, no side is actually superior to the other. The ideologies behind war may be different, and one side may commit more atrocities than the other, but the war is always brutal for both sides, and more often than not its the soldiers that bear the brunt of hate and disapproval when they are actually just following orders. So
iamafan07 4 days ago
What a bunch German dick-heads.
hootiepaladin 6 days ago
Thank you cracked, that was beautiful
manynam 6 days ago
Viva La France!
hootiepaladin 1 week ago 2
thank you CRACKED. I was moved.
h0tbitch35 1 week ago
No small talk to justify why, its not needed. No matter how or why you're watching it, its just an amazing scene.
HarrisonRocks 1 week ago 2
MAGNIFICENT!!! What a great way to tell the Nazis what they could do with themselves!
enterprise160 1 week ago 2
I'm not French nor pro French, but really in this context, this is just awesome.
lempeafeawintil 1 week ago
Both great songs actually.
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Die Wacht am Rhein was written to oppose French encroachment on Germany in 1840, following a pattern that had been repeated numerous times since Louis XIV. La Marseillaise was written to oppose German encroachment on France in collaboration with exiled French aristocrats during the Revolution. Perhaps the solution would have been to declare the Rhine a demilitarized international zone, off limits to both countries, and we would have been spared a couple of world wars. It works so well in Korea.
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dave26250 1 week ago
Wow, the French treat their national anthem with pride and respect. Last I heard my country's anthem it was being violated by Steven Tyler. Woe to the Union, Vive La France!
Wrathbone13 1 week ago
I'm guessing that the 27 "dislikes" can be traced to ISPs in the German-populated regions of Argentina...
LordKhyron85 1 week ago
haha, yes, let's sing the french anthem instead of the german one, b/c the germans were the badies...instead, the french promote freedom and fraternity...and let's sign it in f*cking morroco, for god sakes, who couldn't give more of a f*ck for another imperialistic country.
Seriously people, the irony is just too much...if you like this scene it's b/c you must have from another imperialistic country.
Esteban2000 1 week ago
@Esteban2000 Shit, you've actually got a pretty good point, there.
storstarkskogsturk 1 week ago
I didn't cry,,, but I GOT GOOSEBUMPS... that was reality caught on film..
fazz3173 1 week ago 10
I got chills.
yuiidragon 1 week ago 4
@yuiidragon they're multiplyin'
cheomire 1 week ago
@cheomire I had forgot what I'd written on this, but I still knew exactly what you were referring to. <3
yuiidragon 1 week ago
The fuck I'm not remotely french and I felt fucking moved.
Bleopping 1 week ago 33
You couldn't do that with God Save the Queen (or King, as it would have been then...)
edwardianeccentric 1 week ago
I don't understand shit, captain.
payasofobia 1 week ago
I'm french and manly tears have been shed when I first saw this.
shadowcatkill69 1 week ago 3
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Thumbs up if you're from cracked, read the entry, watched this, started fucking crying and didn't know why.
MsBloodysmiles 1 week ago 102
@MsBloodysmiles are we so predictable?
cheomire 1 week ago
@MsBloodysmiles ok, that's just creepy-!
gryphon50c 1 week ago
if the french didnt like the germans why dont they just leave german territory ?
goldcoastlawyer 1 week ago
@goldcoastlawyer
Because it's not a German territory .
jeffkodiac 1 week ago
@goldcoastlawyer Google search Vichy France, the puppet government the Nazis setup after taking over. Gen. Patton fought them in the invasion of North Africa. Vichy French forces abroad fought the allies with a vigour that caused the Winston Churchill to remark that he wished the French had fought as hard against the Germans in 1940. The average Frenchman hated the Vichy puppet government. At the end of the movie Louie in disgust, dropped the bottle of "Vichy water" in the waste bin.
higgme1ster 1 week ago
@goldcoastlawyer because they're cheese eating surrender monkeys.
maroonoasis 1 week ago
@maroonoasis Napoleon. I rest my case.
sanktmikael 1 week ago
I hate people who hate the French
PatrickNM57 1 week ago 3
@PatrickNM57 that would be everybody
goldcoastlawyer 1 week ago
This is true beauty.
HillSavage72 1 week ago
There is a RICKS CAFE in Casablanca , Morocco opened in 2004 , just like the movie , a great place
99waterlife 1 week ago
the french are very brave. in hollywood propaganda movies.
goldcoastlawyer 2 weeks ago
@goldcoastlawyer
What say is so ridiculous because it's true that the American propaganda has always been " very francophile " and the French in their history have proved that they are brave people .
jeffkodiac 1 week ago
@goldcoastlawyer You are very ignorant of history
PatrickNM57 1 week ago
Just for the record: The song the Germans are singing, called "Die Wacht am Rhein" (meaning The guard at the rhine) is a song from the time after napoleon and it says basicly that if Germany stands united, France will no longer be able to occupy parts of it as they used to the last 200 years. It has nothing to do with nazis, although they used it for their propaganda.
Planktontube 2 weeks ago 4
A very powerful scene! Quite a few writer corroborated on the Casa Blanca script and the name of the gentleman who wrote this scene escapes me at the moment. As the story goes, on seeing the complete film, the writer of this scene also got teary eyed. It's perfectly written, filmed and edited. Ingrid Bergman is beautiful! So is Madeleine Lebeau! This is film making at its finest. I never tire of watching Casa Blanca....
dongmo1 2 weeks ago 4
And the screenplay was written by a Penn State graduate.
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Dersou0ouzala 3 weeks ago
ridiculous see a french singing about democracy while they were slaving half of africa during the second world war, well...its just a movie
rogerzin125 3 weeks ago 2
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All democracies of this time have make this kind of thing .
jeffkodiac 3 weeks ago
@rogerzin125 How very postmodern. Its all relative isnt it - I mean, the Nazis were no worse than anyone else were they - and the White House was built by the sweat of negro slaves.
mikelheron20 2 weeks ago
@mikelheron20
The fucking Nazis, "were no worse than anyone else"?
Seriously, how do you breathe with your head so far up your ass?
skeilak 2 weeks ago
@skeilak My comment was intended ironically. If you had read the comment I was replying to it should have been obvious. I was being sarcastic towards the morons who deny the holocaust.
mikelheron20 2 weeks ago
@mikelheron20
In that case, please accept my apology.
I guess I see too many little hitlerholes on YouTube, to always recognize sarcasm.
skeilak 2 weeks ago
@skeilak Thats ok. Ive done the same thing myself. Probably shouldnt attempt irony on Youtube.
mikelheron20 2 weeks ago
@mikelheron20
When the trees are full of gibbering hate-monkeys, sometimes subtlety doesn't stand a banana's chance.
skeilak 2 weeks ago
@rogerzin125 Exactly!!!
tannekid 2 weeks ago
@rogerzin125 stinky french types
goldcoastlawyer 1 week ago
If you ever meet anybody who claims not to care about politics, make them watch this film. Greatest movie ever.
mrlevyashin 3 weeks ago
Diese weinende Blodine da...die ist genau wie Frankreich! Erst das Maul groß aufreißen und dann gibts was vom Linksrheinischen Nachbarn (auf Deutsch gesagt) auf die Fresse, am Ende ist dann das Gehäule groß.
kettending 3 weeks ago
Mrs Bergman filmed at Berlin in 1938 ("Die vier Gesellen"). In 1941 she filmed at Hollywood.
RoemischKatholisch 3 weeks ago
@RoemischKatholisch Where's your point?
storstarkskogsturk 1 week ago
What did la marseillaise for the african people in 20th century? What did la marseillaise for Vietnam in the 50ies?? Democracy??? Where??? En Algerie in the 60ies???
RoemischKatholisch 3 weeks ago
@RoemischKatholisch ok, it's official...you are a knucklhead.and don't know history..at the time, Casablanca was part of FRENCH morocco....they are on FRENCH soil....
histre101 3 weeks ago
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Now for the english and french: France ever wanted the Rhein as frontier to Germany, but there is not one frenchmen left of the rhine. Take a look on Louis XIV wars on Germany in 17th century and Napoléon! In 1840 the french parlament postulated the Rhein-frontier again. In this situation my people created the "Wacht am Rhein" and the "Deutschlandlied", our national anthem. Both themes are hymnes of self-defending. God bless our holy Deutschland!
RoemischKatholisch 3 weeks ago
-.-' Das sieht den Ja mal ähnlich einfach ein Hamma Lied zu unterbrechen nähmlich Die Wacht am Rhein Da könnte ich Kotzen!!!!
Lukas246611 3 weeks ago
What is the German song name ? o.o , Nice anthem by the French ! :D
DACalvinify 4 weeks ago
@DACalvinify The song is called "Die Wacht am Rhein". The merchant Max Schneckenburger wrote a 5 stanza poem, about German territories in France. (1800 AD ). First German translation: Es braust ein Ruf wie Donnerhall,
wie Schwertgeklirr und Wogenprall:
Zum Rhein, zum Rhein, zum deutschen Rhein,
wer will des Stromes Hüter sein? A call roars like thunderbolt,
like clashing swords and splashing waves:
To the Rhine, the Rhine, to the German Rhine,
who guards tonight my stream divine?
BearyHairy 3 weeks ago in playlist Favorite videos
@BearyHairy Ohh thanks :) Really helpful , Owe you one !
DACalvinify 3 weeks ago
Lieb Vaterland magst ruhig sein!
Lieb Vaterland magst ruhig sein!
Fest steht und treu die Wacht,
Die Wacht am Rhein!
nstwelvegauge 4 weeks ago
Greatest scene ever!
ffairlane57 1 month ago
Vive la democracie? Pour les Africains in 1940´s? Pour les Vietnamesiens? The "Wacht am Rhein" is a self-defending-song against france which ever postulated the Rhine as frontier to Germany. But there is no frenchman left of the Rhine. Ingrid Bergman filmed in Berlin in 1938, did you know that? In WW1 on the western front, 50 % blacks and indian died. That´s french and english democracy!
RoemischKatholisch 1 month ago
@RoemischKatholisch Hi. Perhaps you missed the message of this scene; where expatriots of the former French empire find themselves in Nazi land in Northern Africa at the time..1940's. Africans,Vietnamese&other races deemed unsuitable for existence by the Nazi purity code would have perished as well as Jewish folks.Ask the Vietnamese under Japanese occupation how good their lives were?OrGuam?OrKorea?Or The Philippines? In your rant against anything Western-don't wave the Nazi flag too much. Peace
BearyHairy 1 month ago in playlist Favorite videos
I get chills when I see this video (I have the movie). It's such a shame that Americans are moved to tears when they see the underdog overcome the tyrants when the tyrants are not American but they are completely oblivious to atrocities their own country has committed since WW2. The US is an empire and some day its victims will since THEIR anthemn of freedom over the Star-Spangled Banner! I just hope there won't be any blood shed...
dsarrafi 1 month ago
@dsarrafi Not likely, bub.
tburzio 1 month ago
@dsarrafi Get a life you asshole. Being a troll should be a part time hobby, not a full time occupation. As for your comments....yawn. You're putting people asleep with your ignorant ranting. No offense. Peace.
BearyHairy 1 month ago in playlist Favorite videos
@BearyHairy Sorry I touched a nerve.
dsarrafi 1 month ago
@dsarrafi you must be dreaming.France and the United States are 2 great countries and are always on the same side.France helped free the usa from british rule and the americans freed france from german rule.As far as i know France and the U.S. have never declared war on each other ever.The usa is a very liberal and giving country as is france maybe you should not judge the usa or france either.
worseto1 1 month ago
@worseto1 I don't think you understood what I was saying. I was merely pointing out the irony of the citizens of the "greatest purveyor of violence in the world" (MLK's words not mine) shedding crocodile tears for this clip while their own empire has caused more pain and grief in the world since WW2. A most recent example is the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis killed in a war started (by this empire) based on blatant lies. It is so much easier to see someone else's atrocious Nazi mentality!
dsarrafi 4 weeks ago
@dsarrafi ok i see your point well taken thanks.
worseto1 4 weeks ago
Their german pronunciation is terrible, just gonna throw that out there. Geez Hollywood, I would believe you if the characters actually spoke their "own language" well...
Altoclarinets 1 month ago
THE FREE in the face of tyranny is one of the high points of human history and heroism. ... a lone student standing in the path of an oncoming tank is another image worthy of this.
lenbenhear 1 month ago
last i knew the chick at 1:10 is the last one still alive from the movie casablanca. such a shame but thats life. great movie one of the best and such a great scene. no more war.... french germans americans brits all allied now... gotta love that.
carlman1987 1 month ago
This wasn't film making, this was history...as it happened. This wasn't acting. The emotion you see on the faces of the actors is real. 1942 was half way through WW2 (unless you're American of course) and could have gone either way. Vive la cinema! Vive la liberte!
23071957jazzman 1 month ago 45
@23071957jazzman As it was reported on TMC recently, many of the extras in the scene were refugees and ex-patriots from Europe who escaped the nazis regime with their lives. The tears are real.
bubbalouification 1 month ago
"Contre nous de la tyrannie..." as the Nazis start singing.
"AUX ARMES, citoyens!" Gotta love that :D
Tripicality 1 month ago
Passion! I get tears in my eyes. Good overcoves eveil!
MarylandSpace 1 month ago
@joeybronz. You need to see Patton with Geo. C. Scott. I too like cute French girls in Chanel singing Rouget de Lisle's little ditty. But I like dead Nazis even more.
Mrbrbusby 1 month ago
@Mrbrbusby I Love Patton this is completely different passive resistance is so glorious and evoking.
joeybronzz 1 month ago
Clever juxtaposition - you would think they had composed the German song specially to fit in with the Marseillaise :-) (er perhaps they did?)
dwsolo 1 month ago
@dwsolo No it was just a slightly similar tune, but definitely sung in the same key in this video.
adi87tya 1 month ago
If only they could of had a duet
nstwelvegauge 1 month ago
The best scene in the film? I must demur - I think it's the greatest scene in cinema, period. There is something so incredibly stirring about this, the Nazi/French juxtaposition, the faces as they sing (Yvonne's tears!), the subtle drowning of the German officers' voices, that by the time they sing "Aux arms, citoyens" I am ready to go join the French Foreign Legion. Amazing film, amazing writing, amazing acting, amazing scene.
njplr 1 month ago 2
@njplr They didn't need more people in the Legion.
They needed the peoples of the free democracies to declare war in the name of justice, when Hitler invaded the Sudetenland. Or Czechoslovakia. We of the British Commonwealth at least finally went to Polands aid, and fought for what we all knew was freedom, though we were not ourselves attacked. Wasn't a good business move though, so some waited and charged for their aid. And brought the world for the next century, with others freedom.
uncletigger 1 month ago
When attacking a nation, One must give thought that that nation will defend as hard as you attacked. Britain, America, Russia, India and many more combined overwhelmed Nazi Germany. Hitler did not give thought that many nations would fight in the fight of protecting there allies.
StormriftonROBLOX 1 month ago
At least we Germans still have got triple A rating!
Superrichy261985 1 month ago
I'm not French, I've never given any thought to the French, and I still think without question this is the greatest, most emotional scene in movie making history.
livardo 1 month ago 44
@livardo I completely agree with you. Im not French either but it gives me goose bumps every time I see it.
mikelheron20 2 weeks ago
Thank god these things were shot with film which offer very high resolutions via the original material. People a 100 years from now couldn't make 8k movies out of 1080p.
livardo 1 month ago
This is what should happen with SOPA. Imagine Congress as the Germans, and The People as the Frnech.
TheSevenCamels 1 month ago 3
In my view one of the most breathtaking scenes in any film, ever!!
kageypg 1 month ago
@CortoMaltese86 Without a doubt!!
cx1designs78 1 month ago
vive la france vive la democracie Truly a beautiful seen of passive resistance much better than any movie with the killing o Nazis.
joeybronzz 1 month ago
Hollywood can make as many action movies with superhuman soldiers shooting zillions of Nazis left and right as it wants...... but never in the history of cinema were the Nazis as completely and masterfully defeated as they were in this scene.
mrchuckmorris 1 month ago 75
@mrchuckmorris No, La Marseillaise takes it:s own credit for being the best National anthem, so of course they were going to be defeated. What a dirty trick to place on the Nazis.
fireman12888 3 weeks ago
@mrchuckmorris An excellent observaton. I salute you.
nico12561 3 weeks ago
@mrchuckmorris Absolutely! Incredibly powerful scene. Hollywood has forgotten how to create magic like this..
nemoism 3 weeks ago
@mrchuckmorris
That was about the best comment on YouTube i have ever seen. Is wish i could have expressed it so well.
Greatings from Germany.
badbeatout 1 week ago
Take the greatest 2 minutes in the history of recorded cinema and present it with the worst audio - thanks.
ledwatch 1 month ago
One of the most stirring moments in this epic film. Clear distinction between good and evil. This reminds us that evil will succeed unless forceably confronted, in one way or the other, by good, after all isn't it said that all it takes fro evil to succeed is for good people to do nothing? Here Victor Laslo is confronting evil and knows what to do and does it, but the hidden thing here is it wouldn't have happened unless Rick gave the OK. I know its just a movie, but What a movie!
Reggie1010101 1 month ago 4
Apparently 20 people are Nazi's...
RedBanners4Ever 1 month ago
Reading the below comments, and from what I read in the news over the last couple years, Merkel is one of the few who actually leaned towards the laissez faire approach to recovery and hell, Germany is sustaining Europe it seems. Overwhelming pressure from my president and others to piss away money like they were. Lets all go down! Germany is lucky and if I were them I would want out of the EU. The EU is using you.
Rotroable 2 months ago
No, Merkel is not "ruling" Europe in any way. I, as a german don`t like her (and have not voted for her) but asuming that there is some "evil masterplan" or comparing her to Hitler is just stupid. She is just afraid of what will happen with german economy if the Euro goes down the drain. Maybe she does force her ideas of how economy should work onto others but that hardly makes her "evil" in any way even remotely bordering that of a certain failed artist with one testicle...
APlayOfHopesAndFears 2 months ago
@APlayOfHopesAndFears you are right. if the euro goes down the drain we are all fucked, even us lot accross the channel. its the fault of not just the bankers but those fuckwit career polititians like Barroso who cooked up the gran plan of a european super state. we dont even have a common langauge for fucks sake.
nobskinoff 2 months ago
@APlayOfHopesAndFears and they want to let Turkey and its 85,000,000 in, and u know where the majority of them will settle? the quicker europe gets back to having their individual currancies again the quicker we can get back to cheaper package holidays in Greece harra!
nobskinoff 2 months ago 3
@nobskinoff Exactly my thoughts! But after all those years it would be an incredible painfull process and most politicians are just to half assed to see it trough. So I guess they will just wait and waste even more money until all comes crashing down by itself. So they won`t have to take the blame :-(
APlayOfHopesAndFears 2 months ago
@APlayOfHopesAndFears there are enough savvy people around who wont let them forget the calamitous fuck up they got us all into. More fool them for not giving the assorted populations a referendum, to democratly decide if they wanted to have a common currency and be part of a greater federal superstate. Even a blind halfwitted imbacile could have forseen the dangers. we will end up hanging them along with the bankers.
nobskinoff 2 months ago
@APlayOfHopesAndFears Before we hang them....The top tip for 2012 is...fill the garden shed with packet chinese noodles and get a fishing rod and perhaps a small calibre rifle and a few boxes of bullets!
nobskinoff 2 months ago
@APlayOfHopesAndFears She kicked out two elected governments in a space of months.
MrGilles1990 2 months ago
Why did all the Routes Nationale in France have trees planted either side of them ?
So that the German Army could march in the shade of course .
zarquon53 2 months ago
@zarquon53
You are funny but the Germans have the right to die in the shade.
jeffkodiac 2 months ago
@zarquon53 LOL I love your comment
Sarsburger 1 month ago
fuck you all french haters
MonsieurSM7 2 months ago
Vive la FRANCE!!
fuck the nazi pigs, fuck germany and their eu economic domination, fuck the arrogant british, FRANCE above all forever - the cradle of liberty
MonsieurSM7 2 months ago
@MonsieurSM7 up yours froggy !
zarquon53 2 months ago
Vive la France! Territoire de liberté et de démocratie !
AZKYR 2 months ago
@AZKYR hahahahahahahahahahahaha ..i..
turaj1 2 months ago
I can't watch this scene without crying. Tears of patriotism.. The best movie every made.
garyp4205 2 months ago
Egyik legjobb film a világon , csakúgy mint a szereplői !
galzoli26 2 months ago
> The best scene in the film.
The best scene in film.
arrimine 2 months ago
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France should investigate its own "dirty and bloody history instead of other nations France was responsible for the deaths of 45,000 people in Algeria in 1945 and for the massacre of up to 800,000 people in Rwanda in 1994.PLEASE CHECK WIKIPEDIA
edcboatman 2 months ago
Viva la France!
lifevorce 2 months ago
Singing La Marsaillese on Moroccan Soil? A great scene would include a Moroccan who enters the venue shoot al the Germans and French spits on Bogard , kicks Bergman in the face and sings the Moroccan National anthem while he is pein on the bodies of the European occupiers
Badrinho 2 months ago
The funny thing is that those German ought to be scared as hell, if anyone has ever bothered reading the lyrics to La Marseillaise, its actually pretty violent and graphic....
TeknomanScimitar 2 months ago
20 of the people who watched this are Neo Nazis.
WingZeroAlpha 2 months ago
fuck yeah
dalektaliban 2 months ago
Such brave Frenchmen. Thank goodness they didn't surrender right away. Oh wait.
meltdownup 2 months ago
@meltdownup Many countries didn't have much of a chance. Had Britain not been an island they would have been forced to do the same.... or lose very very fast.
99hesoe 2 months ago
@99hesoe Very true. Had Nazi Germany been attached to the US east coast they would have pushed past the Mississippi, just like they did to the Soviet Union. France and Poland simply ran out of real estate.
Mrblancnoir 2 months ago
@99hesoe The French deserved the ass whoopin Hitler gave them.......They occupied half of Africa them self.....WW 2 whas nothing but justice
Badrinho 2 months ago
@Badrinho Africa deserved their asswhopping too. Your justice is revenge in disguise.
99hesoe 2 months ago
@Badrinho Hitler did justice ? What about the jews ? No one is innocent. No one is in position to give justice. Hitler took his revenge, and thousands of people died because of his sick mind.
Derdoppelgaenger 2 months ago
@Derdoppelgaenger 6 million Jews slaughtered. Plus he killed the mentally ill, and absolutely anyone who dared disagree with him.
garyp4205 2 months ago
@Derdoppelgaenger he did justice to the French and British...who where occuping the half of the world them selfs....Hitker whas a bastard and evil man....but the ones who where occuping Africa where evil men to and they also deserved to die........In Casablanca it is not a proud thing to sing La Marsaillaise....Because the French where occuping Morocco and The French in Morocco deserved to be killed
Badrinho 2 months ago
@Badrinho As I said, no one is in position to judge. In that case, everyone deserves to die.
Besides, this is the bar where all the refugees go to try to escape to America, as you can see, there are only French people in the bar in that scene. They didn't "decide" to be to Casablanca. They are trying to impress the Nazis, do you really expect them to sing another hymn than their own ? I'm not saying the French were innocent, but that scene doesn't shock me in any way, in that context.
Derdoppelgaenger 2 months ago
@Derdoppelgaenger Fuck the Nazi's and The French
Badrinho 2 months ago
@Badrinho fuck you too
MonsieurSM7 2 months ago
@Badrinho fuck the kiwi
TheJEANFB 2 months ago
All it takes to invigorate the world is a simple nod from Bogart...
zaroffhound 2 months ago
@zaroffhound You killed me with that quip.
My FAV Bogey line,When I slap you, youll take it and like it...Maltesee Falcon
mrbamajama 2 months ago
@mrbamajama We didn't exactly believe your story, Miss O'Shea, we believed your two hundred dollars...
zaroffhound 2 months ago
gives me chills every time
chaylitoots 2 months ago 21