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Casablanca (1943)

★ 8.1 · 6,017 ratings on TMDB

They had a date with fate in Casablanca!

Casablanca poster★ 8.1

In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.

DirectorMichael Curtiz
CastClaude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Dooley Wilson, Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Madeleine Lebeau
GenresDrama, Romance
The emergence reading

Casablanca keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same rung, same subject

Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

Origin: Spirits of the Past (2006)E12/E13 · Drama, Romance

Same people

Shared director or cast.

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