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. Decades later, former US diplomat Kathy Kriger opened a real-life "Rick's Cafe" in Casablanca itself as a tribute to the film. "In my imagination, the city of Casablanca is linked to Rick's Cafe," she said. Historian Meredith Hindley, author of a book on wartime Casablanca, said the film formed "part of the American war experience in a way that was never intended". American drummer Najib Salim, who has performed at Rick's Cafe for 15 years, described it as "timeless".

Source: The North Africa Journal November 25, 2022 20:12 UTC