Fall '24: watched NINOTCHKA (1939) with students, attuned to the fact that viewers of '39 knew tof Soviet communism. Election Night, watched CASABLANCA ('43), where fighting fascism is all. Touched by this scene, DON'T BE A SUCKER (1945). Felix Bressart (in NINOTCHKA) as the antifa prof vs Nazis.
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