Casablanca 1942

type: Movie

language: English

duration: 102 min

genre: drama

theme: romantic drama

director: Michael Curtiz

Score: 8 / 10

Casablanca is a 1942 American romantic drama film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, and Paul Henreid. Filmed and set during World War II, it focuses on an American expatriate (Bogart) who must choose between his love for a woman (Bergman) and helping her husband (Henreid), a Czechoslovak resistance leader, escape from the Vichy-controlled city of Casablanca to continue his fight against the Germans. The screenplay is based on Everybody Comes to Rick's, an unproduced stage play by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison. The supporting cast features Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, and Dooley Wilson.

Plot

In December 1941, American expatriate Rick Blaine owns a nightclub and gambling den in Casablanca. "Rick's Café Américain" attracts a varied clientele, including Vichy French and Nazi German officials, refugees desperate to reach the neutral United States, and those who prey on them. Although Rick professes to be neutral in all matters, he ran guns to Ethiopia in 1935 and fought on the Loyalist side in the Spanish Civil War.

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More details

author	Casey Robinson Howard Koch Howard W. Koch Julius J. Epstein Philip G. Epstein
award	Academy Award for Best Director Academy Award for Best Picture Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay National Board of Review: Top Ten Films
contentLocation	Casablanca
director	Michael Curtiz
editor	Owen Marks
events	fleeting relationship World War II
genre	drama historical romance
keywords	arms trafficking arrest as time goes by begin brazzaville civil war concentration camp czechoslovak resistance die wacht am rhein drown ethiopia in 1935 expatriate free french gamble german army german-occupied europe german officer hide kill la marseillaise lisbon loyalist meet nazi german neutral portugal paris plan police arrest police raid portugal during world war ii prefect of police prefecture of police ran guns refugee republican faction resistance in the protectorate of bohemia and moravia second italo-ethiopian war sing spanish civil war vichy france vichy french
musicBy	Max Steiner
nomination	Academy Award for Best Actor Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Black-and-White Academy Award for Best Director Academy Award for Best Film Editing Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score Academy Award for Best Picture Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay
producer	Hal B. Wallis
productionCompany	Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.
publisher	Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.
recordedAt	California
theme	romantic drama