Scene from "Casablanca" movie

I just love this scene

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Film & Animation

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• Casablanca
• Marseillaise

[crassgop]

I enjoy a good French joke as much as the next guy, but anyone seriously suggesting that the French defeat was due to some sort of French cowardice or lack of resolve is obviously geographically and historically ignorant. there was no army capable of doing much in the face of the Werhmacht besides flee at the time. If you had given the French a 21 mile wide moat or half a continent to fight behind, it's hard to imagine the would have done much worse than the British or the Soviets.

[ubetok]

@R2Parmly

Yes, yes, it's just channel, and huge spaces, and winter ... not the people who fought and won. Nazis said so too :))

[AncientHistoryBuff]

@deriter64, i guess he used his deep hatred of the Nazis to help his portrayal.

[deriter64]

@AncientHistoryBuff What a nice thing to remind us all especially in an emotionally charged movie like Casablanca. Viedt must have felt uncomfortable in a Nazi uniform but he trooped on and contributed a great deal to this classic.

[deriter64]

Nazi Germany took on the Red Army and they lost.

[AncientHistoryBuff]

Ironically, Conrad Viedt (who plays the villainous Major Strasser) was well-known in Germany for his anti-Nazi sympathis, plus his wife was Jewish so they had to flee Germany.

[AncientHistoryBuff]

one of the best scenes in the movie. i also get emotional whenever i see this part, and i'm also not French. the majority of the actors in this scene were real-life refugees so the crying is not acting.

[LL45]

This scene gives me goosebumps.

[blithium]

It's like "Tomorrow Belongs to Me" in reverse.

[879korn]

The actors in this scene were mostly Frenchmen in exile so this was an emotional scene for the remember when this came out France was under occupation