[giotto]

A similar scene that always gets me was the Marsellaise (sp?) scene in Casablanca.

Yes, that was the one I was going to cite. I didn't know that about the characters being refugees, though. Maybe that's what makes it so touching. You can't fake that kind of intensity.

[Sherman Logan]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=werf88C7lkA

Of course the anti-tyranny message loses a tad of its impact when you remember the French themselves are foreign conquerors tyrannizing the people of the land.

But of course there’s tyranny and tyranny.