Thousands share Casablanca La Marseillaise scene in solidarity againstParis terrorism attack

In the wake of the events in Paris, people show their support for France with the classic movie moment

A still from Casablanca, in which Victor Laszlo leads the band to play the French national anthem over Nazis singing the German national anthem
As the world reels from the horrific events of the terrorist attack in Paris, people have started to share a clip from Casablanca to show their support for the people of France.
A two-minute YouTube video of the scene from the 1942 film, in which character Victor Laszlo (played by Paul Henreid) leads customers of a bar in singing an impromptu rendition of the French national anthem, La Marseillaise, to quieten a group of Nazis who are singing the German national anthem.
The scene ends triumphantly, with a young woman (pictured above) crying out, "Vive La France!", a statement that has been adopted across the globe in the aftermath of the attacks.
The clip was posted on Reddit in the early hours of Saturday morning and has since been "upvoted", or approved, more than a thousand times.
On Twitter the video was shared hundreds of times by people including German MP Omid Nouripor, comedians Michèle Laroque and Patton Oswalt and US documentary makers Nev Schulman and Michael Moore.
The scene is famous within cinematic history, mainly because Casablanca was made during the Second World War and the Nazi occupation of France.
It is said that the tears seen in the eyes of the extras singing La Marseillaise were genuine, as a number of them were refugees from Nazi persecution in Germany.
Humphrey Bogart, who played Rick Blaine in the film - the owner of the cafe in the scene - was called into the studio to stand in the middle of Rick's Cafe and nod, but was apparently unaware of the significance of his character's approval: that he was giving the OK for the band to play the song.