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Oscar Night Hangover – Is a New ‘Casablanca’ Possible?

February 25, 2008 - 1:00 am - by Roger L Simon
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2008-02-25 11:55:00

It is very easy to set the Casablanca in one of the satellites at the edge of the Iron Curtain before the collapse of the Soviet Union. The Nazis are the Communists. The Gestapo/SS are the KGB or Stasi. Victor can be a refusenik or dissident who had been sent to the Gulag and thought to have died there. Casablanca would be Berlin or Vienna, some city under joint control. Or possibly a port city in Poland where the loyalties of the regime were somewhat divided. Rick can still be a disillusioned American expat, pehaps a journalist. Ilsa a local or an NGO worker from Scandinavia. Etc.