Even this many decades after its release, "Casablanca" remains the go-to film for celebrations of Hollywood.

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Host Leone Lakhani visits the bustling commercial hub of Casablanca, which for many recalls the film classic starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman.

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His idea was to use the devastation of postwar Berlin as the setting for a period piece involving murder, political intrigue, moral ambiguity and romance -- a film noir in the tradition of "Casablanca" or "The Third Man" -- and then to shoot it, with contemporary actors, in the visual and dramatic style of the period.

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