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Fri 05 May 2007Politicians form a coalition in favour of 'Casablanca'The 1942 film Casablanca is at least one thing that (almost) all politicians agree on. The cover story in today's Ticket, The Irish Times entertainment supplement, reveals that when asked to name their favourite films, candidates for Fine Gael, Sinn Féin, the Progressive Democrats and Labour all gave it their first preference, writes Donald Clarke.Michael Curtiz's great 1942 drama, in which Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman form a coalition in wartime Morocco, tied with Ken Loach's The Wind that Shakes the Barley for the title of the politicians' movie of choice.