Rick’s Cafe is a bar in Morocco that was inspired by the fictional bar of the same name in Casablanca. — Photos: AFP
Tourists are flocking to a bar in Morocco searching for the spirit of Humphrey Bogart’s iconic, fictional nightclub, 80 years after the classic wartime film Casablanca hit the silver screen.
The Moroccan port city entered the cultural imagination of the United States at a key point in World War II, thanks to the moody romance starring Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund and Bogart as Rick Blaine.
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