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Cinema
On Location in Morocco
Until recently Morocco has been seen mostly as a stunning movie backdrop, easily stealing
scenes in such dubious cinematic achievements as Sex and the City 2, Prince of Persia, Al-
exander, Ishtar, Troy and Sahara . But while there's much to cringe about in Morocco's
IMDb filmography, the country had golden moments on the silver screen in Hitchcock's
The Man Who Knew Too Much, Orson Welles' Othello and David Lean's Lawrence of Ara-
bia .
None of the 1942 classic Casablanca was actually shot in Casablanca. It was ilmed on a Holly-
wood back lot, and the Rick's Café Américain set was based on the historic El-Minzah Hotel in
Tangier.
Morocco has certainly proved its versatility: it stunt-doubled for Somalia in Ridley
Scott's Black Hawk Down, Tibet in Martin Scorsese's Kundun and Lebanon in Stephen
Gaghan's Syriana, and Inception's Kenyan dreamscape was actually Tangier. Morocco also
stole the show right out from under John Malkovich by playing itself in Bernardo Bertolu-
cci's The Sheltering Sky, and untrained local actors Mohamed Akhzam and Boubker Ait El
Caid held their own with Cate Blanchett and Brad Pitt in the 2006 Oscar-nominated Babel .
 
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