Where They Went

Casablanca (1942)

Directed by Michael Curtiz

In wartime Casablanca, the last stop for refugees hoping for a flight to Lisbon, a cynical American nightclub owner is shaken when the woman who left him in Paris walks into his café with her husband.

  • Travel shown
  • On foot, bike, skis or swimming
  • Not shown on screen
  • Fictional place
  1. 1Flashback: Rick and Ilsa's romance
    Paris, France
    ≈ 00:36:00
    Stated on screen

    In a flashback, Rick and Ilsa fall in love in Paris as the Germans approach; she fails to meet him at the station.

  2. 2Streets and airfield
    Casablanca, Morocco
    ≈ 00:01:00
    Stated on screen

    Police round up suspects after two German couriers are murdered, and Renault greets Major Strasser at the airfield.

  3. 3Rick's Café Américain (fictional)
    ≈ 00:07:00
    Stated on screenFictional

    At Rick's café Ugarte leaves the letters of transit with Rick, and Ilsa and Laszlo arrive; she asks Sam to play it.

  4. 4Marketplace and the Blue Parrot
    Casablanca, Morocco
    ≈ 00:48:00
    Inferred

    Rick confronts Ilsa at a market stall while Laszlo asks Ferrari at the Blue Parrot about exit visas.

  5. 5Café and Rick's apartment upstairs
    Rick's Café Américain (fictional)
    ≈ 00:56:00
    Stated on screenFictional
  6. 6Airport
    Casablanca, Morocco
    ≈ 01:32:00
    Stated on screen

The journey in numbers

Distance travelled
1,902 km
Places
3
Countries
2
Stops
6
  • Not shown: 1,898 km
  • Car: 3.8 km

Distances are measured in a straight line between stops, so real road distances are longer.

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